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La Danse des Fiançailles

Designer Luc-Olivier Merson French
1885
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 556
The patron was the widow of Isaac Bell, a prominent New Yorker in the second half of the nineteenth century. In 1906, the panels were removed from a bay window in their apartment in the Knickerbocker Building, on Fifth Avenue at Twenty-eighth Street.

Eugène Oudinot was apprenticed as a painter at the Choisy-le-Roi porcelain factory outside Paris, but he thereafter specialized in stained glass. He made large windows for ecclesiastical and secular installations in his atelier at Passy, just outside Paris.

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Object Information
  • Title: La Danse des Fiançailles
  • Designer: Luc-Olivier Merson (French, Paris 1846–1920 Paris)
  • Maker: Eugêne Oudinot (French, 1827–1889)
  • Date: 1885
  • Culture: French, Paris
  • Medium: Stained glass
  • Dimensions: 96 x 120 in. (243.8 x 304.8 cm)
  • Classification: Glass-Stained
  • Credit Line: Bequest of Adelaide Mott Bell, 1901
  • Object Number: 06.292a–c
  • Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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