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Replica of a sitting room with pale-blue walls and a wave-patterned wallpaper border. Heavy red velvet curtains on the center wall frame two tall windows, between which hangs a painting of a woman in a gold frame. A beige stone fireplace is at left, an open arched doorway at right.

E-28: German Sitting Room of the Biedermeier Period, 1815-50

c. 1937

Designed by Narcissa Niblack Thorne American, 1882-1966

United States

Miniature room, mixed media

Women artists

Applied Arts of Europe