In the foreground, a boudoir with vaulted ceiling decorated in the arches with wreaths and alternating thunderbolts. A chandelier is suspended from center of the ceiling. Marble floor in geometric pattern in soft green, blue, and pink is covered on either side of room by long, flowered carpets. Console tables in front of pier mirrors hold Etruscan-style porcelain and gilded vases with bouquets. A white marble-top table at left has group of silver-gilt necessities for the bath: a ewer, basin, and water pitcher. Across the room at right a resting alcove showing a reclining chaise with horizontally tufted upholstery. At rear, porticos on either side of central entrance to lower-level semi-circular bathing room are supported by Corinthian columns. Large white swans, on inner edge of cornice, spew streams of water. Semicircular dome of bathing room decorated with bands of elongated vases and flowers terminating in acanthus motifs. White draped curtain caught with palmettes runs width of bathing room. At center, a seated woman in bathing pool, her hair washed (?) by a servant. Two women, wearing blue Empire dresses, also attend the woman, one holds towel, the other pours water into pool. At far right, a woman dressed in white gown, pulls aside the curtain of dressing area.

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Drawing, Bathroom and Boudoir Interior, 1807

This is a Drawing. It was created by Jean-Claude Rumeau. It is dated 1807 and we acquired it in 2012. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, gouache, varnish, graphite on off-white paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This interior shows the use of a gilded frieze with motifs of urns, anthemia, and other neo-classical ornament that looks much like the frieze of the surtout de table featured in the center of the gallery. The swans above the frieze, a favorite motif of Empress Josephine, are also seen on the surtout de table.

It is credited Thaw Collection.

Horizontal rectangle, on two joined sheets of paper, printed in brilliant colors. Esther, seated, being attended by serving woman, with Hagar standing by. Architectural background with drapery.

Overdoor, La Toilette d'Esther, 1825
block printed on handmade paper.
Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
1931-45-1

Various widths of different colored stripes forming panels onto which are printed shelves which hold several different items: a round bottle, a rectangular, patterned vase, a long-necked round bottomed pitcher. On second shelf: a slender flat box holding multi-colored baubles, and a partially eaten two-toned apple.
Color: Off white ground, lime green, pale tones of olive, dark gray, tan, black, pale blue, darker blue.

Sidewall, Tablett (Little Table), 1927–30
machine-printed paper.
Gift of Frankl Galleries.
1930-11-1-a

Vertical rectangle. Design for bathroom interior in mosaic, showing massage bed and dressing table in white marble and gold mosaic.

Print, Plate 41, Une Salle de Bains, lit de massage et coiffeuse de marbre (A...
lithograph and pochoir on paper.
Gift of Unknown Donor.
1980-32-1692

Its dimensions are

29 x 23.7 cm (11 7/16 x 9 5/16 in.) Frame H x W x D: 50.2 x 39.7 x 2.5 cm (19 3/4 in. x 15 5/8 in. x 1 in.) Mat: 45.7 × 35.6 cm (18 × 14 in.)

It is signed

Signed and dated in brush and black ink, lower left: Rumeau 1807

Cite this object as

Drawing, Bathroom and Boudoir Interior, 1807; Jean-Claude Rumeau ; France; pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, gouache, varnish, graphite on off-white paper; 29 x 23.7 cm (11 7/16 x 9 5/16 in.) Frame H x W x D: 50.2 x 39.7 x 2.5 cm (19 3/4 in. x 15 5/8 in. x 1 in.) Mat: 45.7 × 35.6 cm (18 × 14 in.); Thaw Collection; 2012-5-4

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2Ek18/
Accession Number 2012-5-4
Object ID 18794675