Photograph, Photograph of a Clock Designed by Hector Guimard within His House, 22 Rue Mozart

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1910	Work on this object began.
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Photograph, Photograph of a Clock Designed by Hector Guimard within His House, 22 Rue Mozart

This is a Photograph. It was architect: Hector Guimard. It is dated ca. 1910 and we acquired it in 1956. Its medium is photographic print on sensitized paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Madame Hector Guimard. It is credited Gift of Madame Hector Guimard.

Tall Clock, Tall case clock
mahogany, carved teak with dial faces of gilded and patinated metal, glass.
Cleveland Museum of Art, The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund,1992.70.
21.2013.1

A sculptural picture frame manifests the quinessential design of Art Nouveau in its structure. At the top of the metal frame sits a small mound or bead where flowing graceful lines meet. The lines of metal clasp above the mound then flow into waves that flutter and tiny mounds abound on the upper sides of the frame. Their path continues down to the halfway point of the sides encountering a cluster of wavy curling forms and tiny beads. Both sides morph into delicate elongated ovoids with negative inner space. They meet at the u-shaped bottom decorated with symmetrical wavy carvings in the base where a triangular form rests in the center. The bottom has positive space unlike the sides. As our eye returns to the top we see another line is attached under the mound to form amorphic openings with the sides. The inner area for the photograph possesses an unusual shape that follows the outer form of the frame and resembles the top of a human tongue. Elegant silk velvet is applied to the space between all sides and the photo and glass.

Photo Frame, from the Bedroom of Madame Guimard at the Hôtel Guimard
brass, silver, plate glass, silk velvet.
Gift of Mme. Hector Guimard.
1956-76-7-a/c

Its dimensions are

23.6 x 17.6 cm (9 5/16 x 6 15/16 in.)

Cite this object as

Photograph, Photograph of a Clock Designed by Hector Guimard within His House, 22 Rue Mozart; Architect: Hector Guimard (French, 1867–1942); France; photographic print on sensitized paper; 23.6 x 17.6 cm (9 5/16 x 6 15/16 in.); Gift of Madame Hector Guimard; 1956-78-9

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2CmYV/
Accession Number 1956-78-9
Object ID 18411109