id:			122306
accession number:	1942.614
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.614
updated:		2025-10-28 11:03:45.698000

Armchair, 1600s. Italy, 17th century. Walnut; overall: 121.9 x 65.7 x 59.7 cm (48 x 25 7/8 x 23 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John L. Severance, 1942.614

title:				Armchair
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creation date:			1600s
creation date earliest:		1600
creation date latest:		1699
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creditline:			Bequest of John L. Severance
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culture:	Italy, 17th century
technique:	walnut
department:	Decorative Art and Design
collection:	Furniture
type:		Furniture and woodwork
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measurements: Overall: 121.9 x 65.7 x 59.7 cm (48 x 25 7/8 x 23 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection
	opening date:   1942-11-12T04:00:00
	<i>Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 12, 1942-March 14, 1943).

	title:		Life and the Arts in the Baroque Palaces of Rome: Ambiente Barocco
	opening date:   1999-03-10T00:00:00
	<i>Life and the Arts in the Baroque Palaces of Rome: Ambiente Barocco</i>. Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, New York, NY (organizer) (March 10-June 13, 1999); The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO (July 21-October 3, 1999).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Life and the Arts in the Baroque Palaces of Rome: Ambiente Barocco. The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York, 10 March-13 June, 1999;  The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 21 July-3 October, 1999. Exh. cat. edited by Stefanie Walker and Frederick Hammond (New York, Yale University Press), pp. 116-17, exh. cat. no. 39, p. 169.', 'opening_date': '1999-03-10T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	John L. Severance, Cleveland.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	John Long Severance Art Collection Photographs: Furniture, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 81; Reproduced: p. 83
	url:		https://archive.org/details/SeveranceFurniture/page/n80/mode/1up

	<em>Catalogue of the John L. Severance Collection: Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 35, cat. no. 41
	url:		https://archive.org/details/SeveranceBequest/page/n39

	Walker, Stefanie, Frederick Hammond, Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, and Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Life and the Arts in the Baroque Palaces of Rome : Ambiente Barocco. New York: Published for the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, by Yale University Press, 1999.
	page number: 	p. 169, exh. cat. no. 39
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IMAGES

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