Design for a Pendant with a Female Figure Playing a Harp, after jewel called "Poésie", designed by Eugène-Samuel Grasset and manufactured by Maison Vever
Drawing with a design for a pendant, created after a jewel titled "Poésie", designed around 1900 by Eugène Grasset and manufactured by Maison Vever, part of an album of drawings by various artists for individual pieces of jewelry, containing a variety of designs in the Art Nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, as well as some pieces in historic period styles. The design consists of a bundle of clovers and elongated, stylized, scrolling leaves, from which emerges a female figure with long, wavy hair decorated by a headband made up of a branch with laurel leaves. She plays a harp with scrolling motifs, which she holds in her hands over her left shoulder. This design reveals the aesthetic of late Art Nouveau jewelry style, designed, among others, by Rene Lalique, which drew inspiration from antiquity and japonism, abandoning the exclusive use traditional precious stones in the manufacture of jewels, and using, instead, a combination of gold, gemstones, semi-precious stones, mother-of-pearl, ivory and horn, enamel, and glass, to create colorful, powerful, and sinuous designs, often presenting animal and other figurative motifs. A small sketch of an arm, executed possibly by a student or learning artist with stronger traces than the rest of the design, is executed to the right of the pendant in the drawing.
Artwork Details
- Title: Design for a Pendant with a Female Figure Playing a Harp, after jewel called "Poésie", designed by Eugène-Samuel Grasset and manufactured by Maison Vever
- Artist: Anonymous, French, 19th century
- Designer: After Eugène-Samuel Grasset (French, born Switzerland, Lausanne 1841–1917 Paris)
- Manufacturer: After jewel manufactured by Maison Vever
- Date: ca. 1900
- Medium: Graphite on brown, semi-transparent paper
- Dimensions: Sheet: 9 13/16 × 7 1/2 in. (25 × 19 cm)
Album: 14 3/16 in. × 11 in. × 9/16 in. (36 × 28 × 1.5 cm) - Classifications: Albums, Drawings, Ornament & Architecture
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1953
- Object Number: 53.670.32
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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