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Figure 3a Paneled Room (salon de compagnie), about 1790-1795;
artist: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (French architect, 1736-1806);
painted panels: Jean-Siméon Rousseau de la Rottière (French painter and interior decorator, 1747-1820) and Jules-Hughes Rousseau (French sculptor and interior decorator, 1743-1806);
overdoors: Jean-Guillaume Moitte (French sculptor and draftsman, 1746-1810);
Painted and gilded oak, painted and gilded plaster, white marble, modern gilt-bronze hardware, and modern mirror glass, Entire Room: 682.2 × 592.8 cm (268 9/16 × 233 3/8 in.);
J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, California), 98.DH.149 © The J. Paul Getty Trust. All Rights Reserved.
Figure 3b Paneled Room (salon de compagnie), about 1790-1795;
artist: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (French architect, 1736-1806);
painted panels: Jean-Siméon Rousseau de la Rottière (French painter and interior decorator, 1747-1820) and Jules-Hughes Rousseau (French sculptor and interior decorator, 1743-1806);
overdoors: Jean-Guillaume Moitte (French sculptor and draftsman, 1746-1810);
Painted and gilded oak, painted and gilded plaster, white marble, modern gilt-bronze hardware, and modern mirror glass, Entire Room: 682.2 × 592.8 cm (268 9/16 × 233 3/8 in.);
J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, California), 98.DH.149 © The J. Paul Getty Trust. All Rights Reserved.

Object/Work🔺

  • Catalog Level:🔺 set (value type: controlled list)

  • Type:🔺 room (value type: authority)

  • Components/Parts-Quantity: 4 Type: paintings
    Components/Parts-Quantity: 1 Type: mantlepiece
    Components/Parts-Type: paneling (value type: controlled format or controlled list)

Classification🔺

  • Terms:🔺
    decorative arts
    architecture
    European Art (value type: controlled list)

Titles or Names🔺

  • Text:🔺 Paneled Room (salon de compagnie) (value type: free text)
    Preference: preferred (value type: controlled list)
    Type: repository

  • Text:🔺 Paneled Room
    Preference: alternate

  • Text:🔺 Salon de compagnie
    Preference: alternate
    Language: French

Creation🔺

  • Creator Description:🔺 designed by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (French architect, 1736-1806); painted panels by Jean-Siméon Rousseau de la Rottière (French painter and interior decorator, 1747-1820) and Jules-Hughes Rousseau (French sculptor and interior decorator, 1743-1806); overdoors attributed to Jean-Guillaume Moitte (French sculptor and draftsman, 1746-1810) (value type: free text)

  • Extent: room
    Identity:🔺 Ledoux, Claude-Nicolas (_value type: authority)
    Role:🔺 designer

  • Extent: panels
    Identity:🔺 Rousseau de la Rottière, Jean-Siméon (_value type: authority)
    Role:🔺 painter

  • Extent: panels
    Identity:🔺 Rousseau, Jules-Hughe (_value type: authority)
    Role:🔺 painter

  • Extent: overdoors
    Identity:🔺 Moitte, Jean-Guillaume (_value type: authority)
    Role:🔺 painter

  • Creation Date:🔺 about 1790-1795 (value type: free text)
    Earliest:🔺 1785 Latest:🔺 1800 (value type: controlled format)

  • Creation Place/Original Location: Paris (France) (value type: free text and/or controlled format)

Style/Period/Group/Movement

  • Indexing Terms: Neo-classical (value type: authority)

Measurements🔺

  • Dimensions Description:🔺 682.2 x 529.8 cm (268 9/16 x 233 3/8 in.) (value type: free text)

  • Value: 682.2 Unit: cm Type: height
    Value: 5229.8 Unit: cm Type: width (value type: controlled format and controlled lists)

Materials and Techniques🔺

  • Description:🔺 Painted and gilded oak; painted and gilded plaster; white marble; modern gilt-bronze hardware; modern mirror glass (value type: free text)

  • Material Name:
    oak
    plaster
    marble
    bronze
    mirror
    Technique Name: repoussé (value type: authority)

Subject Matter🔺

  • Indexing Terms:🔺
    interior architecture
    arabesques
    centaurs
    sphinxes
    reception (value type: authority)

Descriptive Note

  • Text: The design of this room was invented by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, one of the most celebrated French architects of his generation, who called on skilled painters and sculptors to implement his decorative scheme for the painted and gilded doors and panels, and the gilt plaster relief sculptures in the overdoors. The grotesque ornamentation, which combines graceful arabesques and winged centaurs with palmettes and sphinxes, shows some of the finest decorative work of the late 1700s. Much inspired by the art of ancient Rome, such designs are characteristic of the style called neo-classicism that was fashionable in Europe during this period. The paneling decorated the main reception room of a house built for Jean-Baptiste Hosten, a sugar plantation owner who enslaved 200 Haitian people. (value type: free text)

  • Citation: J. Paul Getty Museum online (value type: authority)
    Page: accessed 18 July 2024 (value type: free text)

Context

  • Architectural Context-Building/Site: Jean-Baptiste Hosten Plantation (Saint-Domingue, Haiti, Africa) (value type: authority)

Current Location🔺

  • Repository Name/Geographic Location:🔺 Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, California, United States) (value type: authority)
    Repository Numbers:🔺 98.DH.149 (value type: free text)

NOTE: 🔺 indicates a core CDWA category.

Revised 24 July 2024
by Emily Benoff

Figure 3a Paneled Room (salon de compagnie), about 1790-1795;
artist: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (French architect, 1736-1806);
painted panels: Jean-Siméon Rousseau de la Rottière (French painter and interior decorator, 1747-1820) and Jules-Hughes Rousseau (French sculptor and interior decorator, 1743-1806);
overdoors: Jean-Guillaume Moitte (French sculptor and draftsman, 1746-1810);
Painted and gilded oak, painted and gilded plaster, white marble, modern gilt-bronze hardware, and modern mirror glass, Entire Room: 682.2 × 592.8 cm (268 9/16 × 233 3/8 in.);
J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, California), 98.DH.149 © The J. Paul Getty Trust. All Rights Reserved.
Figure 3b Paneled Room (salon de compagnie), about 1790-1795;
artist: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (French architect, 1736-1806);
painted panels: Jean-Siméon Rousseau de la Rottière (French painter and interior decorator, 1747-1820) and Jules-Hughes Rousseau (French sculptor and interior decorator, 1743-1806);
overdoors: Jean-Guillaume Moitte (French sculptor and draftsman, 1746-1810);
Painted and gilded oak, painted and gilded plaster, white marble, modern gilt-bronze hardware, and modern mirror glass, Entire Room: 682.2 × 592.8 cm (268 9/16 × 233 3/8 in.);
J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, California), 98.DH.149 © The J. Paul Getty Trust. All Rights Reserved.
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