Gallery Ceiling Design, Hôtel Cottier
Medium
Graphite, pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash, watercolor, gilt
Dimensions
19 1/2 x 13 5/8 in. (49.6 x 34.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Dodge Fund, 1967
Accession Number
67.827.3
Tags
Art Historical Context
Welcome to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, where we showcase the intricate preparatory works that brought grand 19th-century interiors to. "Gallery Ceiling Design, Hôtel Cottier" (1867) is a collaborative masterpiece by French artists Jules-Edmond- Lachaise and Eug-Pierre Gourdet. This detailed sheet, measuring 19½ x 13⅝ inches, captures a proposed ceiling for the elegant Hôtel Cottier, likely envisioning an opulent gallery space during France's Second Empire era—a time of lavish architectural embellishments under Napoleon III. Rendered in graphite, pen and gr...
About the Artist
Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise|Eugène-Pierre Gourdet · 1897–1897
Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, born Jules Lachaise on September 2, 1836, in Paris, emerged as a prominent French painter and draughtsman specializing in lavish interior decorations during the Second Empire and beyond. Little is known about his early life and formal training, though he married Berthe Gourdet in 1866, forging a close professional partnership with her brother, the decorator Eugène-Pi...