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Title to Scrapbook containing Drawings and Several Prints of Architecture, Interiors, Furniture and Other Objects by Charles Percier

Title to Scrapbook containing Drawings and Several Prints of Architecture, Interiors, Furniture and Other Objects

Charles Percier · 1795

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Artist
Charles Percier
Date
1795
Medium
Pen and black and gray ink, graphite, black chalk
Location
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dimensions
15 11/16 x 10 in. (39.8 x 25.4 cm)
Collection
Drawings and Prints
Credit line
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963
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Charles Percier

Charles Percier, a visionary French architect and designer, shaped the opulent Neoclassical style of the Napoleonic era, even designing a sword of service.

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