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Decorative Panel (France)
This is a Decorative panel. It is dated 1850–60 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.
Hand painted wallpaper ornaments
This framed landscape paper dates to the mid-19th Century. The production of this design involves a number of different techniques. The background is combed or dragged in a wood grain pattern resembling oak; the landscape scene is hand painted, and the oval picture frame is woodblock-printed. Papers with a printed frieze, or ornament, such as this, that would repeat horizontally but not vertically were usually printed in eight to twelve foot lengths, which allowed some flexibility to accommodate different ceiling heights. These would be installed with multiple panels in a room, with the frames installed about eye level, the same as a real framed painting, and these landscape panels would alternate with plain wood-grained panels. They would be spread out around the room and would negate the need to hang additional artwork. The Cooper-Hewitt has a set of 4 of these medallions that are identical except that each frame contains a different hand painted scene. Three of the landscapes contain images of birds while the fourth contains a family of deer.
This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled Hand painted wallpaper ornaments.
This object was
donated by
Eleanor Garnier Hewitt and Sarah Cooper Hewitt.
It is credited Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
- Decorative Panel (France)
- block printed and hand painted on a combed background.
- Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
- 1931-45-61
- Decorative Panel (France)
- block-printed and hand painted on a combed background.
- Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
- 1931-45-62
- Sidewall (France)
- block-printed, stamped foil, applied chromolithograph.
- Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
- 1931-45-72
Our curators have highlighted 3 objects that are related to this one.
- Yakut Mother and Child with Reindeer Figure
- porcelain, enamel, gilding.
- The Henry and Ludmilla Shapiro Collection; Partial gift and partial purchase....
- 1989-41-225
- Sidewall, Frames
- screen printed on paper.
- Gift of Graham & Brown Inc..
- 2005-31-1
- Sidewall (France)
- block printed on handmade paper.
- Gift of Mrs. Rollin Stickle.
- 1940-74-4-a
Its dimensions are
80 x 50.5 cm (31 1/2 x 19 7/8 in.)
Cite this object as
Decorative Panel (France); block printed and hand painted on a combed background; 80 x 50.5 cm (31 1/2 x 19 7/8 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1931-45-64
