Pair of stained glass windows depicting in the center two antique profile portraits of a woman and a man surrounded by laurel leaves symbolizing victory, the entourage is defined by symmetrical patterns of fruits, ribbons and laurels. The whole is painted in grisaille and silver yellow on cathedral glass. They are signed lower right by master glassmaker Eugène Oudinot dated 1887.
Pair of Antique stained glass signed Eugène Oudinot
Pair of stained glass windows depicting in the center two antique profile portraits of a woman and a man surrounded by laurel leaves symbolizing victory, the entourage is defined by symmetrical patterns of fruits, ribbons and laurels. The whole is painted in grisaille and silver yellow on cathedral glass. They are signed lower right by master glassmaker Eugène Oudinot dated 1887.
Eugène-Stanislas Oudinot de la Faverie known as Eugène Oudinot (1827-1889). He was introduced to the art of stained glass by Georges Bontemps and followed Eugène Delacroix’s painting lessons. He worked with many cardboard makers, architects including Viollet-Le-Duc.
He has also worked for many personalities, among which we find writers and journalists, architects, politicians, scientists, bankers or merchants, members of the French or foreign aristocracy. He also worked for several members of the great New York families (Bell, Belmont, Vanderbilt). He also worked for the American architect Richard Morris Hunt.
After a first stay in the United States in 1877 from where he brought back the opalescent glass technique, he left more at length in 1882 to supervise the installation of a stained glass window designed by Luc-Olivier Merson and intended for the manor of Vanderbilts, called the Little Chateau.
Dimensions with wooden frame: H189cm L100cm
Perfect condition, fully restored in lead and new wooden frame
