Art Exhibition Stand

between 1860 and 1864

Gustave Herter American, 1830-1898

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American, Level 2, West Wing

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About the Artwork

This art exhibition stand in Renaissance Revival style was probably commissioned for an art gallery in one of several great mansions built in the United States during the Victorian period. Among the extraordinary features are the four standing winged lions supporting the outer corners. At each stand end are a carved artist’s palette, brushes, and implements that symbolize the functional role of the piece.

Title Art Exhibition Stand

Artwork Date between 1860 and 1864

Artist Gustave Herter

Life Dates 1830-1898

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Walnut

Dimensions Overall: 47 × 45 × 30 1/2 inches (119.4 × 114.3 × 77.5 cm)

Classification Furniture

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 1989.4

Markings

Signed below the apron on the back of the piece: G. Herter below the apron on the front of the piece: G. Herter | New York

Inscriptions below the apron on the back of the piece: G. Herter below the apron on the front of the piece: G. Herter | New York

Provenance

Peter Hill

DIA, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-William Fund, 1989.

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Published References

Bulletin of the DIA 65, nos 2/3 (1989): 69, fig. 39, (ill.).

"Selected recent acquisitions." Bulletin of the DIA 66, no 4 (1991): 47, (ill.).

"American Decorative Arts Acquisitions 1985-2005." Bulletin of the DIA 81, no. 1-2 (2007): 56.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Gustave Herter, Art Exhibition Stand, between 1860 and 1864, walnut. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 1989.4.