Cleveland Museum of Art

Double-leaf Doors

Pierre Rousseau

Date

1790s

Medium

oil on wood

Culture

France, 18th century

Department

European Painting and Sculpture

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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 was conserved in 1979 and retains more traces of the original graining than the other doors by this artist in the museum's collection.

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