Panel from the Grand Salon of the Ocean Liner Normandie
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Object Label
These ornamental brackets, exemplary of eighteenth-century Guijarati wood carving, are from a rest house associated with a Jain temple. Pilgrims who came to worship in the temple used the rest house for social activities.
The Brooklyn Museum of Art's first Curator of Ethnology, Stewart Culin (1858–1929), purchased the rest house while traveling with Lockwood de Forest (1850–1932) of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on a Museum expedition to India in 1913–14. De Forest had established the Ahmedabad Wood Carving Company with Maganbhai Hutheesing in 1881 in response to the popularity of orientalist ornament in the Arts and Crafts Movement.
Caption
Jean Dupas French, 1882–1964. Panel from the Grand Salon of the Ocean Liner Normandie, ca. 1934. Verre Eglomise, Glass, paint, silver and gold leaf, canvas backing, 48 3/4 x 31 1/2 x 1/2 in. (123.8 x 80 x 1.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Marilynn and Ivan C. Karp, 85.270. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 85.270_overall_PS22.jpg)
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Title
Panel from the Grand Salon of the Ocean Liner Normandie
Date
ca. 1934
Medium
Verre Eglomise, Glass, paint, silver and gold leaf, canvas backing
Classification
Dimensions
48 3/4 x 31 1/2 x 1/2 in. (123.8 x 80 x 1.3 cm)
Signatures
no signature
Inscriptions
no inscriptions
Markings
no marks
Credit Line
Gift of Marilynn and Ivan C. Karp
Accession Number
85.270
Rights
Creative Commons-BY
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The artist is the French artist Jean Dupas. This panel once decorated the Grand Salon of the SS Normandie-- considered by many to be the most beautiful and luxurious passenger ocean liners ever built. Her maiden voyage was on May 29, 1935.Thank you!!!
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