Date: ca. 1780
Dimensions:
Length of legs: 11 in. (27.9 cm)
Depth of seat: 20 in. (50.8 cm)
Height of seat: 15 1/2 in. (39.4 cm)
Overall: 35 3/4 × 22 3/4 × 19 1/4 in. (90.8 × 57.8 × 48.9 cm)
Classification: Furniture
Department: Decorative Arts
Provenance: Elsie de Wolfe, 1865-1950, interior decorator, New York, from whom purchased by Charlotte Pruyn Hyde, Dec. 16, 1920; Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Louis F. Hyde, Glens Falls, NY, 1920; by bequest to The Hyde Collection, 1952.
De Wolfe was the prototype of the modern interior decorator. She banished the dark, heavy ornament of the late Victorian in favor of a lighter palette including painted, neoclassical French chairs such as this pair.
De Wolfe was the prototype of the modern interior decorator. She banished the dark, heavy ornament of the late Victorian in favor of a lighter palette including painted, neoclassical French chairs such as this pair.
Credit Line: Bequest of Charlotte Pruyn Hyde
Object number: 1971.243.2
On view
Location:Charles R. Wood Gallery