View at Tivoli
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
The attribution of this unusual table is based on similarities of detail, particularly the curtain-rod-like element below the top, which also appears on a cabinet the firm displayed at the Centennial Exhibition in 1876. The style of the table is termed Neo-Grec and refers to a new interest in classicism that emerged during the Second Empire in the 1860s in France and during the 1870s in the United States. The table\'s white, or ivory, finish, a rare surviving example, is also French-inspired and looks back to examples from both the ancien régime of the eighteenth century and the Empire style popular under Napoleon I in the early nineteenth century.
Caption
Pierre Thuillier French, 1799–1858. View at Tivoli, 1840 or 1842. Oil on linen, 23 × 16 3/8 in. (58.4 × 41.6 cm) frame: 30 × 23 1/2 × 3 in. (76.2 × 59.7 × 7.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of The Roebling Society, 1990.100. No known copyright restrictions (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1990.100_SL1.jpg)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
View at Tivoli
Date
1840 or 1842
Geography
Place made: Europe
Medium
Oil on linen
Classification
Dimensions
23 × 16 3/8 in. (58.4 × 41.6 cm) frame: 30 × 23 1/2 × 3 in. (76.2 × 59.7 × 7.6 cm)
Signatures
Signed lower right: "P Th"
Credit Line
Gift of The Roebling Society
Accession Number
1990.100
Rights
No known copyright restrictions
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