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1954

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2008

2024

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Drawing, Design for a Bourgeois Biedermeier Interior

This is a Drawing. It was designed by R. Haes. It is dated 1853–58 and we acquired it in 1954. Its medium is brush and watercolor, white gouache, pen and black ink on wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

Coblenz (Koblenz), Germany on the Rhine River was a tourist mecca, especially after 1842, when King Friedrich Wilhelm IV and Queen Elisabeth took up summer residence in the nearby Schloss Stolzenfels. The furnishings in this drawing date from the 1840s, and the ceramic tile stove features Schinkel-style classical motifs.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Sarah Cooper Hewitt.

Its dimensions are

Sheet: 21.6 x 28.6 cm (8 1/2 x 11 1/4 in.) Mat: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.) Frame H x W x D: 39.7 x 50.2 x 2.5 cm (15 5/8 in. x 19 3/4 in. x 1 in.)

It is signed

Signed in black ink, lower left, on carpet: Hass/ Coblentz/ 1858

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Bourgeois Biedermeier Interior; Designed by R. Haes; Germany; brush and watercolor, white gouache, pen and black ink on wove paper; Sheet: 21.6 x 28.6 cm (8 1/2 x 11 1/4 in.) Mat: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.) Frame H x W x D: 39.7 x 50.2 x 2.5 cm (15 5/8 in. x 19 3/4 in. x 1 in.); Museum purchase through gift of Sarah Cooper Hewitt; 1954-157-2

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