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IG_206: Vitraux en plâtre et verre coloré
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Title

‘Vitraux en plâtre et verre coloré’

Type of Object
Dimensions
12 x 15 cm
Artist / Producer
Dating
c. 1890
Location
Inventory Number
Photothèque Archéologie Égypte I, 017
Research Project
Author and Date of Entry
Sarah Tabbal 2024

Iconography

Description

The Italian photographer Beniamino Facchinelli (1839–1895) captured stucco and glass windows in this black and white photograph. Three windows are seen hanging side by side on a wall, and another is captured, only cut off, in the lower left area of the photograph. In the group of three windows, that on the left is rectangular and shows the motif of a vase of flowers. That in the middle is rectangular and shows symmetrically arranged flower and star ornamentation composed of eight-petalled flowers inscribed in eight-pointed stars; four-petal floral motifs are set between the eight-pointed stars. The window on the right-hand side, which is rectangular in shape and tapers upwards into a triangle, features symmetrically arranged floral ornamentation: a six-petalled flower, from which six flower stems emerge, occupies the centre of a sexfoil motif; six-petalled flowers within hexagons are set between the sexfoils. All the windows taken in this photograph were set in a wooden frame.
There is an inscription on the mounting board. The photograph bears the serial number 1091 inscribed in black in the upper right-hand corner (Volait, 2024).

Iconclass Code
41A6711 · flowers in a vase
48A981 · ornament ~ geometric motifs
48A9815 · ornament ~ starforms
48A983 · ornament derived from plant forms
48A9833 · flowers ~ ornament
Iconclass Keywords
Inscription

Cairo – ‘Musée arabe’ (text in French, on the mounting board, Volait, 2024)

Materials, Technique and State of Preservation

Technique

Aristotype paper, positive.

History

Research

This photograph by Beniamino Facchinelli is one of a series taken in the Museum of Arab Art (Musée d’art arabe), the future Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo (Volait, 2024). A window with a motif similar to that of the central window in the photograph can be found in the Musée du Louvre in Paris (IG_38). A window largely identical to the one shown on the left of the photograph is today held in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (IG_182).

Dating
c. 1890
Period
1881 – 1895
Related Locations
Place of Manufacture

Provenance

Previous Owner

Collections Jacques Doucet (1853-1929)

Bibliography and Sources

Literature

Volait, M. (dir.)(2024). Catalogue raisonné of Egyptian views by Beniamino Facchinelli. InVisu, CNRS, Le Caire photographié par Facchinelli. Retrieved on 30.01.2024 from http://facchinelli.huma-num.fr/items/show/349.

Volait, M., et al. (2017). Le Caire sur le vif. Beniamino Facchinelli photographe (1875–1895). Paris : Publications de l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art.

Image Information

Name of Image
FRA_Paris_INHA_IG_206
Credits
INHA
Copyright
Public Domain

Citation suggestion

Tabbal, S. (2024). ‘Vitraux en plâtre et verre coloré’. In Vitrosearch. Retrieved December 5, 2025 from https://www.vitrosearch.ch/objects/2713050.

Record Information

Reference Number
IG_206