Octagonal room of stone or painted stone with arched openings on four sides and a cupula of Moorish-inspired interlace. The central rear arch leads to a receding colonnade while lateral niches display two large neoclassical urns with painted Moorish decoration. Below the side niches are European versions of Turkish ottomans covered with French mid-century textiles. A large pipe stand of Germanic origin occupies the center of the kiosk and an octagonal table sits to the right. Barely noticeable amidst the room's richly patterned surfaces is a man reclining on a central ottoman smoking a hooka, attended by a male servant to his left.

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Drawing, Design for a Moorish Smoking Room [Tabagie], ca. 1844

This is a Drawing. It was created by Léon Feuchère. It is dated ca. 1844 and we acquired it in 2012. Its medium is brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled Design for a Smoking Room.

It is credited Thaw Collection.

An intricate knotted design in a circular pattern with a circular central motif.

Print, The Third Knot (Interlace Pattern with White Medallion), ca. 1506-7
woodcut on off-white laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
1944-37-1-b

Scene depicts firemen pulling Engine No. 13 toward a burning house. Yellow ground color, block printed in pink and white distemper colors and in olive green/brown with glossy finish. This design continues three times around the circumference of the box. Border paper around lid: on green ground, branching stem block-printed in white and pink.

Bandbox, Engine Company No. 13, 1831–44
block printed on handmade paper, pasteboard support.
Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
1917-36-7-a,b

Monochrome tapestry square with an all-over design of twists and knots in deep purple.

Square (Egypt), 3rd–4th century
warp: s-spun linen; wefts: s-spun linen, s-spun wool.
Gift of John Pierpont Morgan.
1902-1-116

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Broken column sections scattered on grass in foreground with hills in the distance.

Painting, Broken Column, Parthenon, 1869
brush and oil paint, graphite on paperboard.
Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
2018-36-1

Book, Entrée d’Un Mosquée a Alexandrie, plate 3, from Les Arts Arabes:...
cloth and printed paper.
Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington, DC.
13.2012.4

Horizontal rectangle. A part of the hill with two groups of trees and a seated Arab figure is shown in the left and central foreground. In the right foreground and in the middle distance view across the Valley of Jesophat.

Drawing, Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, March 1868
brush and oil paint, graphite on cardboard.
Gift of Louis P. Church.
1917-4-341

Its dimensions are

32.3 × 23.1 cm (12 11/16 × 9 1/8 in.) (Mat): 45.7 × 35.6 cm (18 × 14 in.)

It is signed

Signed in pen and brown ink, lower margin, right: L. Feuchère

Cite this object as

Drawing, Design for a Moorish Smoking Room [Tabagie], ca. 1844; Léon Feuchère (French, 1804 - 1857); France; brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on wove paper; 32.3 × 23.1 cm (12 11/16 × 9 1/8 in.) (Mat): 45.7 × 35.6 cm (18 × 14 in.); Thaw Collection; 2012-5-2

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2Ek14/
Accession Number 2012-5-2
Object ID 18794671