Gallery Talk at Rienzi: The Dundas Sofa
- When
- September 15, 2016
- Where
-
Rienzi Center for European Decorative Arts
1406 Kirby Drive
Houston,TX 77019 - Cost
- $.7800 - $713.639
Rienzi Center for European Decorative Arts, MFAH presents a Gallery Talk at Rienzi: The Dundas Sofa. Presented by Christine Gervais, director, Rienzi; and curator, decorative arts.
In this month’s Gallery Talk at Rienzi, Christine Gervais discusses the recently acquired The Dundas Sofa, the centerpiece of Rienzi’s fall exhibition, Grand Designs: Neoclassical Taste in the 18th Century.
About Gallery Talks at Rienzi
Each month, Rienzi highlights a great work of art in its collection. Gallery talks are presented by Museum curators, conservators, and librarians.
Pictured: Designed by Robert Adam, made by Thomas Chippendale, The Dundas Sofa, 1765, gilt pine, beech, and silk upholstery, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the Brown Foundation Accessions Endowment Fund.
