Drawing Room from a Town House: 901 Fifth Avenue, New York City

Gallery 365, European Art 1500-1850, third floor

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Drawing Room from a Town House: 901 Fifth Avenue, New York City

1923

This room and its furnishings were given to the Museum in 1939 by Eleanore Elkins Rice. Designed as an elegant setting for Mrs. Rice's distinguished collection of eighteenth-century French furniture and decorative arts, the room was originally installed in her New York town house. The woodwork of painted and gilded oak is based on designs by French architect Jacques-Ange Gabriel (1698-1782).

Gallery 365, European Art 1500-1850, third floor

Object Details

Title:

Drawing Room from a Town House: 901 Fifth Avenue, New York City

Date:

1923

Artist:

Medium:

Painted and gilded oak

Dimensions:

24 feet 3 1/2 inches x 48 feet 4 1/2 inches (740.4 x 1474.5 cm)

Classification:

Architecture (including fragments)

Credit Line:

Bequest of Eleanore Elkins Rice, 1939

Accession Number:

1939-41-62

Geography:

Made in New York, New York, United States, North and Central America

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Gallery 365, European Art 1500-1850, third floor

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