The Lady of Shalott stained glass window

Designer Matthys Maris Dutch
 Factory owner Daniel Cottier British, Scottish
 Cottier & Co.

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 773


This collaboration between a painter and a designer-entrepreneur reveals the creative synergies of late nineteenth-century New York’s overlapping cultural circles. Cottier combined his artistic and business talents in the marketing of Aesthetic goods in both London and New York. His gallery at 144 Fifth Avenue, along the Ladies Mile, hosted exhibitions of progressive American and European art and employed painters like Maris and Albert Pinkham Ryder to produce decorative objects. These efforts laid the groundwork for the Society of American Artists’ formation in 1877. Cottier’s and Maris’s stained glass—including this example featuring a subject from Arthurian legend by way of the poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson—emulated that of the English Pre-Raphaelites.

The Lady of Shalott stained glass window, Matthys Maris (Dutch, The Hague 1839–1917 London), Stained glass, American or English

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The Lady of Shalott stained glass window, Matthys Maris (Dutch, The Hague 1839–1917 London), Stained glass, American or English
The Lady of Shalott stained glass window, Matthys Maris (Dutch, The Hague 1839–1917 London), Stained glass, American or English
The Lady of Shalott stained glass window, Matthys Maris (Dutch, The Hague 1839–1917 London), Stained glass, American or English
The Lady of Shalott stained glass window, Matthys Maris (Dutch, The Hague 1839–1917 London), Stained glass, American or English

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