Window blinds
| Accession Nr.: | 87.30.1-4 |
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| Date of production: |
mid 19th century
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1. It depicts a lake in front of trees with blue foliage a fair child sits on the high banks on a pink linen sheet, playing with blue leaves. His clothes are being taken off by a girl in blue skirt, standing in the water.
2. Feeding a swan, a female figure is stepping of the stairs in front of trees with rich foliage.
3. A female figure in blue dress and red gown sits on a stone bench under trees with blue foliage she offers grapes to a peacock on her left and holds a basket full of grape clusters in her right.
4. A rocky riverside in front of trees with blue foliage a girl in red clothes stands in the water, wearing a floral wreath on her head. She gathers up her clothes with her left and embraces a smaller girl in blue dress and helps her step in the water. The original function of the painted pictures is unknown. They were probably decorating walls and were turned into window blinds only at the end of the century. According to the previous owner, they used to belong to the Steller Meoss or Mussy family in Kassa (today Kosice).
2. Feeding a swan, a female figure is stepping of the stairs in front of trees with rich foliage.
3. A female figure in blue dress and red gown sits on a stone bench under trees with blue foliage she offers grapes to a peacock on her left and holds a basket full of grape clusters in her right.
4. A rocky riverside in front of trees with blue foliage a girl in red clothes stands in the water, wearing a floral wreath on her head. She gathers up her clothes with her left and embraces a smaller girl in blue dress and helps her step in the water. The original function of the painted pictures is unknown. They were probably decorating walls and were turned into window blinds only at the end of the century. According to the previous owner, they used to belong to the Steller Meoss or Mussy family in Kassa (today Kosice).
Literature
- a kiállítást rendezte: Batári Ferenc, Vadászi Erzsébet: Historizmus és eklektika. Az európai iparművészet stíluskorszakai. Iparművészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 1992. - Nr. 139.
