Side Chair

1841 - 1842

Filippo Pelagio Palagi, Designer Gabrielle Cappello, Maker

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European: Grand Tour of Italy-Rome, Level 2, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Side Chair

Artwork Date 1841 - 1842

Makers Filippo Pelagio Palagi (Designer) Italian, 1775-1860 Gabrielle Cappello (Maker) Italian, 1806-1876

Medium Mahogany inlaid with maple and mahogany, with modern silk upholstery copying the original upholstery

Dimensions Overall: 39 × 21 1/8 × 19 1/4 inches (99.1 × 53.7 × 48.9 cm)

Classification Furniture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Founders Society Purchase with funds from Founders Junior Council

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. 1987.21.1

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Marks Marks, on back of frame, stenciled in green: 3424 [with traces of "PPR" erased] Marks, repeated in pencil: 3424

Provenance

King Carlo Alberto of Savoy [1798-1849] (Castello Reale, Racconigi, near Turin, Italy);
until 1922, (Racconigi, near Turin, Italy).
1938-1980 private collection (Ticino, Switzerland);
1980-1987, (Heim Gallery, Ltd. & and Old Masters [Paintings and Sculptures] Ltd., London, England);
1987-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Darr, Alan Phipps. "European sculpture and decorative arts acquired by the Detroit Institute of Arts 1978-87." The Burlington Magazine 130 (June 1988): pp. 498-499, fig. 111 (ill.).

De Royere, Bertrand. Pelagio Palagi: Décorateur des palais royaux de Turin et du Piémont (1832–1856). Paris, 2017, pp. 202 (ill.); pp. 276–278 (ill.).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Filippo Pelagio Palagi; Gabrielle Cappello, Side Chair, 1841 - 1842, mahogany inlaid with maple and mahogany, with modern silk upholstery copying the original upholstery. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Founders Junior Council, 1987.21.1.