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Drawing, Design for a Nymph Comb
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Eugène Samuel Grasset. It is dated ca. 1900 and we acquired it in 1950. Its medium is brush and gouache, graphite on gray wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. Gustav E. Kissel.
- Katagami, Abstract Water Pattern
- mulberry paper (kozo washi) treated with fermented persimmon tannin....
- Gift of Helen Snyder.
- 1976-103-111
- Drawing, Design for a Corsage Ornament: Night
- brush and watercolor, graphite, brush and gouache on brownish, translucent....
- Museum purchase from Drawings and Prints Council Fund through gift of The....
- 1998-50-1
- Hair Ornament (China)
- kingfisher feathers, lacquer, silk-covered wire.
- Gift of William Dangaix Allen.
- 1939-73-11
Its dimensions are
32.9 x 25.5 cm (12 15/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
It is inscribed
Numbered in graphite, lower right: 8
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for a Nymph Comb; Designed by Eugène Samuel Grasset (Swiss, 1841 – 1917; active Paris, France 1871–1917); France; brush and gouache, graphite on gray wove paper; 32.9 x 25.5 cm (12 15/16 x 10 1/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. Gustav E. Kissel; 1950-6-5
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource.
