Detail of The Engagement Ball Stained Glass in the Metropolitan Museum, March 2022

Title: La Danse des Fiançailles

Designer: Luc-Olivier Merson (French, Paris 1846–1920 Paris)

Maker: Eugêne Oudinot (French, 1827–1889)

Date: 1885

Culture: French, Paris

Medium: Stained glass

Dimensions: 96 x 120 in. (243.8 x 304.8 cm)

Classification: Glass-Stained

Credit Line: Bequest of Adelaide Mott Bell, 1901

Accession Number: 06.292a–c

The patron was the widow of Isaac Bell, a prominent New Yorker in the second half of the nineteenth century. In 1906, the panels were removed from a bay window in their apartment in the Knickerbocker Building, on Fifth Avenue at Twenty-eighth Street.

Eugène Oudinot was apprenticed as a painter at the Choisy-le-Roi porcelain factory outside Paris, but he thereafter specialized in stained glass. He made large windows for ecclesiastical and secular installations in his atelier at Passy, just outside Paris.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/188970