Panel from the Grand Salon of the Ocean Liner Normandie

Jean Dupas

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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. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

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

Architectural Element

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

Frequent Art Questions

  • Who is the artist?

    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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