Drawing of an Interior: Salon
Medium
Pen and blue ink, watercolor, heightened with white
Dimensions
sheet: 6 1/8 x 9 1/2 in. (15.5 x 24.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1972
Accession Number
1972.642.8
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the elegant world of a 19th-century French salon with this delicate *Drawing of an Interior:*, created anonymously in 1857. The intimate scene captures a refined domestic space, likely a bourgeois parlor, featuring women seated amid plush couches and ornate desks. These elements evoke the social heart of French middle-class homes during the Second Empire, where served as venues for conversation, tea, and intellectual exchange—a hallmark of the era's cultured lifestyle. Rendered in pen and blue ink with watercolor and white heightening on a modest 6 1/8 x 9 1/2-inch sheet, the artwor...
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...