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IG_205: Vitraux en plâtre et verre coloré
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Title

‘Vitraux en plâtre et verre coloré’

Type of Object
Dimensions
15 x 12 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. Four windows can be seen on a wall: while the two in the upper row are barely visible, the two lower windows are captured almost completely. They feature a symmetrically arranged floral motif with alternating concave and convex curlicues and stylized blossoms within a semicircular frame. The rectangular stucco and glass panels are all set in a wooden frame.
There is an inscription on the mounting board. The photograph bears the serial number 1092 inscribed in white in the middle of the lower edge (Volait, 2024).

Iconclass Code
25G41 · flowers
48A9813 · ornament ~ round and curved forms
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 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 stucco and glass window, resembling the window on the left in this photograph in shape and decoration, has been in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York since 1893 (IG_169). The German architect and co-founder of the Museum of Arab Art in Cairo Julius Franz (1831–1915) illustrated a largely identical window of this type in his publication Die Baukunst des Islam (Franz, 1896, p. 69) (IG_164).

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

Provenance

Previous Owner

Collections Jacques Doucet (1853-1929)

Bibliography and Sources

Literature

Franz, J. (1896). Die Baukunst des Islam, second edition. Darmstadt: Arnold Bergsträsser.

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/348.

Image Information

Name of Image
FRA_Paris_INHA_IG_205
Credits
INHA
Copyright
Public Domain

Linked Objects and Images

Linked Objects
Die Baukunst des Islam
Stucco and glass window with curlicues and flowers

Citation suggestion

Tabbal, S. (2024). ‘Vitraux en plâtre et verre coloré’. In Vitrosearch. Retrieved December 5, 2025 from https://vitrosearch.ch/objects/2713049.

Record Information

Reference Number
IG_205