Ask the Scholar
Document scope · 2 pages
Scholar
Ask about this object, its catalog metadata, its source description, or the page inventory.
For page-specific OCR and visual context, open one of the page chats.
Source Description
Reignier trained at the School of Fine Arts in Lyon, France, and became a professor there, specializing in flower painting. Lyon was an important center for the silk industry, and because naturalistic floral motifs were popular designs for textiles in the mid-19th-century, flower painting was both encouraged and rewarded financially. Large textile firms would even keep their own greenhouses with flowers and plants for their designers to work from. Reignier’s symmetrical and tightly executed watercolor could have been easily adapted to be a design for a textile or wallpaper. This work was commissioned by William T. Walters in 1864 to be used as the frontispiece to one of his drawings albums containing works on paper with the theme of religious devotion.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
10725
label
Holy Water Stoup with Figures of Faith, Hope and Charity
core
obj
dtoType
drawing
citationUrl
pageCount
2
Source metadata
id
10725
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
Holy Water Stoup with Figures of Faith, Hope and Charity
description
Reignier trained at the School of Fine Arts in Lyon, France, and became a professor there, specializing in flower painting. Lyon was an important center for the silk industry, and because naturalistic floral motifs were popular designs for textiles in the mid-19th-century, flower painting was both encouraged and rewarded financially. Large textile firms would even keep their own greenhouses with flowers and plants for their designers to work from. Reignier’s symmetrical and tightly executed watercolor could have been easily adapted to be a design for a textile or wallpaper. This work was commissioned by William T. Walters in 1864 to be used as the frontispiece to one of his drawings albums containing works on paper with the theme of religious devotion.
provenance
Commissioned by William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1864; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
date
1864
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
watercolors (paintings)
drawings
imageCount
2
pageCount
2
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
24
height
18
dimensionsRaw
H: 9 7/16 x W: 7 1/16 in. (24 x 18 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Signature] In watercolor at lower left: Reignier 1864; [Number] In graphite at upper right on verso: 1; [Number] In graphite at center bottom on verso: 1
med
watercolor and opaque watercolor over traces of graphite on cream, very thick, very smooth wove paper
creator_ids
4002
collection_ids
EAN
exhibition_ids
2069
3500
Page inventory
seq
1
type
photo
mediaId
58afed20d17e3c3d
hasOcr
no
hasDescription
no
seq
2
type
photo
mediaId
0da8850aa441c78b
hasOcr
no
hasDescription
no