Château Interior (1834): Art, History and Details
Château Interior at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1834, pen and ink, watercolor, gouache with graphite underdrawing on heavy cream wove paper. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Château Interior (1834) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is V. Germain (French).
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
Little is known today about V. Germain, the artist who produced this drawing. Here, he focused on an interior scene with exacting detail, using a small group of figures at the sheet’s center to emphasize the massive scale of the castle where they have gathered.
Object facts
- Title: Château Interior
- Date: 1834
- Creator attribution: V. Germain (French)
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Type: Drawing
- Technique: pen and ink, watercolor, gouache with graphite underdrawing on heavy cream wove paper
- Dimensions: Sheet: 41.9 x 67.1 cm (16 1/2 x 26 7/16 in.)
- Collection: DR - French
- Department: Drawings
- Accession number: 2018.1063
A detail from the museum
Germain focused on a variety of textured fabrics and luxury materials in this depiction of a castle interior.
Collection credit
Bequest of Muriel Butkin
Further reading listed by the museum
- 19th Century European Paintings (New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1978)
View the collection record
See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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