About the Artwork
Vanderbilt Dining Chair
1881 or 1882
Albert Herter (Artist) American, 1871-1950 Gustave Herter (Artist) American, 1830-1898
Oak, brass, and embossed gilt leather
Overall: 35 × 18 1/2 × 18 1/4 inches (88.9 × 47 × 46.4 cm)
Furniture
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund
2001.71
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Markings
Impressed, on the underside of the proper left rear stretcher: 137 Incised, on the inside seat rail: X
Provenance
Margot Johnson, Inc.;2001-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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"American Decorative Arts Acquisitions 1985-2005." Bulletin of the DIA 81, no. 1/2 (2007): p. 60.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Albert Herter; Gustave Herter, Vanderbilt Dining Chair, 1881 or 1882, oak, brass, and embossed gilt leather. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 2001.71.
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