Artwork
The Green Lacquer Room, Museo Correr, Venice
The Green Lacquer Room, Museo Correr, Venice is an oil painting by the Impressionist artist Walter Gay. It dates from 1912 and is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This oil painting depicts an interior space, specifically identified as the Green Lacquer Room within the Museo Correr in Venice.
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Subject & Meaning
The work portrays a refined interior space, the Green Lacquer Room in the Museo Correr, Venice, dominated by green lacquer walls.
The work portrays a refined interior space, the Green Lacquer Room in the Museo Correr, Venice, dominated by green lacquer walls. Within the room are a framed painting, an upholstered chair, a small figurine, a mirror, and patterned wallpaper, all arranged to convey a sense of cultivated domestic taste. The careful selection of these objects suggests an aesthetic focus on leisure, refinement, and the private world of the early-twentieth-century bourgeoisie, inviting viewers to contemplate the room as a curated expression of personal identity and artistic sensibility.
Technique & Style
The Green Lacquer Room is executed in oil paint on canvas measuring 54.6 cm in height by 46.4 cm in width, yielding a modest, upright format suited to the intimate scale of the room depicted. The composition records the lacquered interior by rendering its constituent furnishings and decorative elements, chairs, a mirror, wallpaper, a painting, and a figurine, suggesting careful attention to surface finish and patterned detail. The work is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
History & Provenance
The work titled The Green Lacquer Room was created by the American artist Walter Gay in 1912. Executed in oil paint on canvas measuring 54.6 cm by 46.4 cm, the painting depicts the interior of the Green Lacquer Room at the Museo Correr in Venice. The work is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
No details regarding the original commission, earlier ownership chain, or specific accession number are provided in the available sources.
Overview
This oil painting depicts an interior space, specifically identified as the Green Lacquer Room within the Museo Correr in Venice. The composition centers on a long table and a prominent mirror, flanked by two unoccupied chairs. The artist employs a distinctive painterly approach to render the decorative elements and the room's atmosphere, capturing a specific moment within this ornate setting, characteristic of an affluent historical residence.
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Artist & collection
Artist
Walter Gay (January 22, 1856 – July 13, 1937) was an American painter noted both for his genre paintings of French peasants, paintings of opulent interior scenes and was a notable art collector.
