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Decorative Panel (France)
This is a Decorative panel. It is dated 1850–1860 and we acquired it in 1931. Its medium is block printed and hand painted on a combed background. It is a part of the Wallcoverings department.
This is one panel from a set of four bearing similar likeness. On a combed or dragged ground simulating oak, each has a block-printed simulation of an ornate carved wood frame containing a hand painted landscape scene. This frame contains a scene of macaws in a tropical setting full of lush foliage and a beautiful waterfall as backdrop. These panels would have been used in groups, hung on opposite sides of the room, alternating with plain wood grained panels. These panels were produced at a time when a high degree of realism was fashionable in wallpapers. Also popular at this time were decors or fresco papers which contained an elaborate architectural framework with pilasters, wainscot and moldings enclosing a scene from a scenic wallpaper or a printed landscape scene modeled after a painting.
This object was
donated by
Eleanor Garnier Hewitt and Sarah Cooper Hewitt.
It is credited Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
- Photo Frame, from the Hôtel Guimard
- bronze, gold; photograph (modern reproduction).
- Gift of Mme. Hector Guimard.
- 1956-76-5-a,b
- Sidewall (France)
- machine-printed paper.
- Gift of Eleanor Mitchell.
- 1947-52-1
- Sidewall, Frames
- screen printed on paper.
- Gift of Graham & Brown Inc..
- 2005-31-1
Our curators have highlighted 6 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Firescreen (France)
- block-printed on handmade paper.
- Gift of Marian Hague.
- 1942-73-1
- Decorative Panel (France)
- block printed and hand painted on a combed background.
- Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
- 1931-45-64
- Drawing, Design for Toile de Jouy: La Marchande d'Amours (The Cupid Seller)
- pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over traces of graphite on cream laid....
- Museum purchase from Drawings and Prints Council Fund.
- 2002-5-1
Its dimensions are
82.5 x 49 cm (32 1/2 x 19 5/16 in.)
Cite this object as
Decorative Panel (France); block printed and hand painted on a combed background; 82.5 x 49 cm (32 1/2 x 19 5/16 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1931-45-61
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Hewitt Sisters Collect.
