Salvaging the Past: Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide, Deborah L. Krohn, and Ulrich Leben, editors
Georges Hoentschel (1855–1915) was a leading French interior designer in historic styles, head of a decorating firm, and ceramicist during the Belle Epoque. He found inspiration for his designs in medieval and 18th-century French art, which he avidly collected, amassing more than 4,000 pieces of furniture, woodwork, metalwork, sculpture, paintings, and textiles. After visiting Hoentschel in Paris, the American financier J. Pierpont Morgan acquired the collection and bequeathed it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1906 and 1916–17. These works greatly enriched the museum’s medieval art department and became the nucleus of its decorative arts department, profoundly influencing American tastes in the early 20th century. Through texts, early documentary photographs, and images of newly conserved works, Salvaging the Past goes behind the scenes to explore the history and influence of this remarkable collection.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Susan Weber
Preface
Thomas P. Campbell
Avant-Propos
Nicole Hoentschel
Editor's Acknowledgement
Editor's Note and Catalogue Contributors
Introduction
Deborah L. Krohn
Chapter 1. The Hoentschel Collection Comes to New York
Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide
Chapter 2. Georges Hoentschel and His World
Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide and Ulirch Leben
Chapter 3. Interiors by Georges Hoentschel: Salvaging Fragments of a Lost World
Ulrich Leben
Chapter 4. Cataloguing Hoentschel in Word and Image
Deborah L. Krohn
Eighteenth-Century Collection
Catalogue Numbers 1-127
Chapter 5. Hoentschel's Gothic Importance
Christine E. Brennan
Medieval Collection
Catalogue Numbers 128-162
Chapter 6. The Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs Pavilion, Art Nouveau, and the Fin de Siecle
Amy F. Ogata
Chapter 7. "All Beautiful in Form and Delicious in Color": Hoentschel and Ceramics
Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide
Circa 1900
Catalogue Numbers 163-202
Appendix
Maison Leys Inventory, 1887
Maison Leys Client List, 1887
Maison Leys Inventory, 1892
Maison Leys Client List, 1892
Steiglitz Museum Commission, 1901
"Georges Hoentschel by Arsène Alexandre, 1919
Index
Photographic Credits
Other Details
ISBN
978030019024
Publication Date
2013
Format
Digital PDF
