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1804 · Linen, plain weave; cotton embroidery thread
52.7 × 68.1 cm (20 3/4 × 26 3/4 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Charles Percier
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Charles Percier was a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer, who worked in a close partnership with Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, originally his friend from student days. For work undertaken from 1794 onward, trying to ascribe conceptions or details to one or other of them is fruitless; it is impossible to disentangle their cooperative efforts in this fashion. Together, Percier and Fontaine were inventors and major proponents of the rich, grand, consciously-archaeological versions of neoclassicism we recognise as Directoire style and Empire style.
Source: Smithsonian Institution · Trust score: 90% · Updated 1mo ago
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