Félix BRACQUEMOND (Paris, 1833 - Sèvres, 1914) The muses of the arts, decorative project for a door at the Universal Exhibition of 1878 Watercolour over pencil lines Annotated 'Project for the decoration / of a door at the Exhibition / of 1878 / to be executed by Maison H & C° with Chaplet earthenware' in ink lower right No frame The muses of arts, decorative project for a door at the Exposition Universelle of 1878, watercolour over pencil lines, by Félix Bracquemond 18.70 × 24.80 in. H : 47.5 cm, W : 63.0 cm Bibliography : Isaacson, Joël (dir.), cat. exp. The Crisis of Impressionism 1878-1882, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, November 1979 - January 1980, University of Michigan ed. 1979, pp. 50-67, repr. p. 61. Pfeiffer, Ingrid (dir.), cat. exp. Women impressionists. Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzales, Marie Bracquemond (Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 22 February - 1 June 2008, San Francisco, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 21 June - 21 September 2008), repr. p. 236. Exhibitions : Bouillon, Jean-Paul (dir.), cat. exp. Félix Bracquemond et les arts décoratifs. Du japonisme à l'Art nouveau (Limoges, Musée national Adrien Dubouché, 5 April - 4 July 2005, then in Selb-Plössberg, Deutsches Porzellanmusem, 25 July 2005 - 25 October 2005, then in Beauvais, Musée départemental de l'Oise, 16 November 2005 - 13 February 2006), p. 149, cat. no. 59, repr. p. 148.