Rococo | The Continuing Curve: 1800s | Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

Date
- 1700s
- 1800s
- 1900s
- 2000s
Location
- America
- England
- France
- Germany
- Italy
- Netherlands
Material
- Porcelain
- Silver
- Wood
- Works on Paper
- Drawing: Cartoon for a Woven Carpet
  France, ca. 1848
  Brush and gouache on heavy wove paper, lined
  Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
  Gift of John Judkyn, 1954-23-12
  Photo: Matt Flynn
- Side chair
  Attributed to John Henry Belter (American, b. Germany, 1804–1863)
  New York, NY, ca. 1855
  Rosewood veneer, oak, silk upholstery (not original)
  Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
  Gift of Mrs. Edwin Gould, 1937-4-2
  Photo: Matt Flynn
- Sofa
  Attributed to John Henry Belter (1804–1863)
  New York, NY, ca. 1855
  Rosewood with replaced upholstery
  Museum of the City of New York, 38.53.1
  Photo: Matt Flynn
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The Continuing Curve: 1800s

The rococo impulse went underground during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when neoclassicism prevailed, then resurfaced in England under the flamboyant Prince Regent, later George IV, and in France during the Second Empire (1852–70). Rococo’s most significant later interpretation occurred internationally from about 1880 to 1915, when designers found inspiration in the natural flow of the rococo aesthetic for a new design concept known as Art Nouveau.

The Continuing Curve: 1800s