A Louis C. Tiffany Glass Masterpiece Enters The Met Collection
In celebration of the American Wing's 100th anniversary in 2024, The Met recently acquired Garden Landscape (1912), a marvelous stained-glass window commissioned and designed by two noteworthy women.
At nearly seven feet tall by over 10 feet wide, this spectacular three-panel window—now on view at the south end of the Museum’s Charles Engelhard Court—was made at the behest of the businesswoman, philanthropist, and suffragist Sarah Cochran, who sought to immortalize the idyllic grounds of her grand estate, Linden Hall, in Pennsylvania. It was subsequently designed by Agnes F. Northrop (American, 1857–1953) for Tiffany Studios (American, 1902–32).
One of the company’s star “Tiffany Girls,” Northrop worked magic in Favrile glass. Favrile (from the Old English term fabrile, meaning "handwrought") was the result of blending colors together while the glass was still in its molten state—a method that Louis Comfort Tiffany devised in the early 1890s to achieve more subtle effects of shading and texture. The artisanship present in Garden Landscape is especially astounding.
In its entirety, Garden Landscape offers a long vista through tall pines flanking a central fountain amid a profusion of hydrangeas, peonies, hollyhocks, nasturtiums, and foxgloves. These were subjects preferred by Northrop and her contemporaries, and aligned with the comforting nostalgia of the “old-fashioned garden.” This magnificent window preserves Cochran's beloved garden in glass so that it remains perennially in full bloom.
Thoughtful Met Museum Souvenirs
For jotters and journalers, this hardcover journal features a dazzling detail from Garden Landscape.
Our box of 20 notecards contains four each of five designs adapted from the window, perfect for an artful greeting.
Plus, pick up a Louis C. Tiffany Garden Landscape Postcard in-store as a token of your visit to the Museum.
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*Purchase, Alan Gerry Gift; 2023 Benefit Fund; Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; funds and gifts from various donors, by exchange; Ronald S. Kane Bequest, in memory of Berry B. Tracy; Lila Acheson Wallace, several members of The Chairman's Council, The Erving and Joyce Wolf Foundation, Martha J. Fleischman, Elizabeth J. and Paul De Rosa, Women and the Critical Eye, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lockwood Chilton Jr., Cheryl and Blair Effron, The Felicia Fund, Julie and James Alexandre, Elizabeth and Richard Miller, Anonymous, John and Margaret Ruttenberg, and The Derald H. Ruttenberg Foundation Gifts, 2023
