Design for a Brooch (Primary Title)
Eugène-Samuel Grasset, Swiss, active in Paris, 1845 - 1917 (Artist)
This is a preliminary design for a brooch known as the “Marguerite” (the French word for “daisy”). It represents one of about twenty pieces of jewelry designed by Grasset and made by the Maison Vever on display at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900. The final brooch, executed in gold, ivory, enamel, sapphire, and topaz, is now at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Grasset’s The Sorcerers Necklace (2014.167), made by Maison Vever for the same exhibition, is also on view in this gallery.
Signed with the artist's monogram EG in ink at the lower right
Inscribed Eugène Grasset (?) Vever expo 1900 in pencil at the lower
left edge of the sheet
Inscribed 11c.4, 9.8, and 8.2 in pencil at the upper right
Numbered 4 in pencil on theverso
Inscribed with mount instructions in pencil on the verso
John and Maria Shugars Fund
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