Interior Design with a Central Door Covered by Green Drapery and Two Cabinets
late 19th century (?)
Medium
Gouache
Dimensions
sheet: 9 1/2 x 12 in. (24.1 x 30.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Fund, 1971
Accession Number
1971.605.3
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Art Historical Context
This charming gouache drawing captures a carefully composed Victorian interior, centered on a doorway framed by flowing green drapery. Flanked by two elegant cabinets, the scene includes subtle details like a clock, reflecting the period’s fascination with harmonious domestic spaces. Created by an anonymous British artist in the late 19th century, the work likely served as a design study or presentation piece for interior ornamentation. Gouache’s opaque, luminous qualities allowed the artist to vividly render textures—from the soft folds of fabric to the polished wood of the cabinets—making i...