Design for a Chair Back Cover with an Oval-Shaped Ornamental Frame with a Kneeling Woman and a Playful Putto Surrounded by Garlands of Leaves and Flowers and Scrolling Acanthus Leaves Inside a Larger Ornamental Frame
1870–1900 (?)
Medium
Watercolor and gouache
Dimensions
Sheet: 15 1/16 × 9 7/16 in. (38.3 × 24 cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Accession Number
49.50.184(a)
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Anonymous, French, 19th century · 1800–1900
**Anonymous, French, 19th Century (ca. 1800–1900)** The artist cataloged as Anonymous, French, 19th century embodies the enigmatic yet essential contributions of unidentified creators to France's vibrant 19th-century art world. Active roughly between 1800 and 1900, this figure—or potentially collective workshop—produced a diverse array of works amid the nation's transition from Neoclassicism thro...