Design for a Wall Elevation with Double Doors (Fifth Floor)
Design for a period style wall elevation with double doors in the center. Both the doors and the wall panels are decorated with grotesques in the style of Antoine Watteau and Francois Boucher. In the larger panels flanking the doors a female figure forms the central focus of the decorations. Below the wall elevation part of the floor is also depicted.
Artwork Details
- Title: Design for a Wall Elevation with Double Doors (Fifth Floor)
- Artist: Mewès and Davis (active London and Paris, from 1900)
- Artist: Charles-Frédéric Mewès (French, Strasbourg 1860–1914 Paris)
- Artist: Arthur Joseph Davis (British, Bayswater 1878–1951 Wimbledon)
- Date: ca. 1900–14
- Medium: Watercolor over graphite
- Dimensions: Sheet: 7 15/16 x 12 3/16 in. (20.1 x 31 cm) [half of the folio]
- Classifications: Drawings, Ornament & Architecture
- Credit Line: Purchase, Anne Stern Gift, 1976
- Object Number: 1976.502.1.2(43)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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Multiple artists/makers
ca. 1900–14
Mewès and Davis
ca. 1900–14
Multiple artists/makers
ca. 1900–14
Multiple artists/makers
ca. 1900–14
Multiple artists/makers
ca. 1900–14
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