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Charles Percier

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Smithsonian

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Smithsonianhttps://www.si.edu/object/chndm_1921-6-377
Tier 1 · Institutional90%

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Charles Percier was a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer, who worked in a close partnership with Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, originally his friend from student days. For work undertaken from 1794 onward, trying to ascribe conceptions or details to one or other of them is fruitless; it is impossible to disentangle their cooperative efforts in this fashion. Together, Percier and Fontaine were inventors and major proponents of the rich, grand, consciously-archaeological versions of neoclassicism we recognise as Directoire style and Empire style.

Source: Smithsonian Institution · Trust score: 90% · Updated 1mo ago

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Artworks (8)

Panel

1804 · Linen, plain weave; cotton embroidery thread

52.7 × 68.1 cm (20 3/4 × 26 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Coin cabinet

1800 · Mahogany (probably Swietenia mahagoni), applied and inlaid silver

Overall: 35 1/2 × 19 3/4 × 14 3/4 in. (90.2 × 50.2 × 37.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Tureen

1794 · Silver gilt

18 1/4 x 14 1/8 in. (46.4 x 35.9 cm); Other: 20 1/8 in. (51.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Plan for a Menagerie

1778 · Pen and black ink, watercolor

20 5/8 x 17 15/16 in. (52.4 x 45.6 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Vignette with Two Portrait Medallions

1764 · Pen and gray ink with brush and gray wash

3 3/8 x 5 3/8 in. (8.5 x 13.6 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Allegory of Shipping

1764 · Pen and black ink with brush and brown wash with white heightening over graphite underdrawing

6 1/8 x 8 3/8 in. (15.5 x 21.3 cm.)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Design for Neptune with an Oval Medallion

1764 · Pen and black ink with brush and gray wash

3 9/16 x 2 1/8 in. (9 x 5.4 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Design for a Vignette: Harbor Scene

1764 · Pen and black ink with brush and gray wash

1 1/4 x 3 3/8 in. (3.1 x 8.6 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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8 published of 8 catalogued · 8 with image

The Met
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Art Institute Chicago
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