Double-Leaf Doors (1790s): Art, History and Details

Double-Leaf Doors (1790s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Pierre Rousseau (French, 1751–1829).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Shifts in style and taste often result in changes to original architectural details. Rousseau painted these doors with imitation dark wood grain. Another craftsman later scraped off the dark color surrounding the classical designs. This set has recently been conserved.

Object facts

• Title: Double-Leaf Doors
• Date: 1790s
• Creator attribution: Pierre Rousseau (French, 1751–1829)
• Culture: France
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on wood
• Dimensions: Framed: 287 x 154 x 6 cm (113 x 60 5/8 x 2 3/8 in.); Unframed: 274 x 63 cm (107 7/8 x 24 13/16 in.)
• Collection: P - French 18th Century
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1942.2.12.a

Collection credit

Gift of Grace Rainey Rogers in memory of her father, William J. Rainey

Further reading listed by the museum

• Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 3. European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.

View the collection record

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