Design for a Garden Room

ca. 1922

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 691

This presentation drawing for a garden room represents a grand-scale example of the fusion between the outdoor garden and interior design. The inclusion of green wicker seating, a tile-backed pool, and skylights and floor-to-ceiling windows with leaded-glass floral designs all contribute to the merger of indoor and outdoor spaces. Prominently displayed at the end of the room is a statuette shown in a niche, lined presumably in blue glass mosaic. The sculpture is a reduction after Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s figure of Victory for the Sherman Monument unveiled in 1903 in New York. A later reduction, presumably the same size as this one, is in the Museum’s collection and on view in Gallery 771. Though details of the drawing’s commission remain unknown, the room may have been designed for an early collector of Saint-Gaudens’s work.

Artwork Details

Object Information

Overview

Title: Design for a Garden Room
Artist: Louis C. Tiffany (American, New York 1848–1933 New York)
Designer: Unidentified designer
Maker: Tiffany Studios (1902–32)
Date: ca. 1922
Geography: Made in New York, United States; Country of Origin United States
Culture: American
Medium: Transparent and opaque watercolor, and graphite on paper
Dimensions: 29 1/4 × 36 7/8 in. (74.3 × 93.7 cm)
Credit Line: Purchase, Walter Hoving and Julia T. Weld Gifts and Dodge Fund, 1967
Object Number: 67.654.399
Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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