Armchair

Possibly Gustave Herter German (Stuttgart, principality of Württemberg)

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 736

This imposing armchair is from Belvoir, a large Gothic villa built in the 1850’s in Yonkers, New York for the tobacco merchant Christian H. Lilienthal. A nineteenth-century photograph of the Gothic Revival library at Belvoir shows chairs and bookcases closely related to documented works by the cabinetmaker Gustave Herter, suggesting that this chair was also designed by the talented German immigrant master craftsman. Like much Gothic Revival furniture, it owes more to the vocabulary of architecture than to traditional furniture making.

Armchair, Possibly Gustave Herter (1830–1898), Walnut, original leather, modern velvet cushion, American

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Armchair, Possibly Gustave Herter (1830–1898), Walnut, original leather, modern velvet cushion, American
Armchair, Possibly Gustave Herter (1830–1898), Walnut, original leather, modern velvet cushion, American
Armchair, Possibly Gustave Herter (1830–1898), Walnut, original leather, modern velvet cushion, American
Armchair, Possibly Gustave Herter (1830–1898), Walnut, original leather, modern velvet cushion, American

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