Peonies Blown in the Wind
John La Farge
ca. 1880
Medium
Leaded opalescent glass
Dimensions
75 x 45 in. (190.5 x 114.3 cm)
Classification
Stained glass window
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1930
Accession Number
30.50
Tags
WindowsPeonies
About the Artist
John La Farge · 1835–1910
John La Farge (1835–1910) was born into a wealthy French émigré family in New York City, the son of John Frederick La Farge and Louisa Binsse de Saint-Victor. Educated at Jesuit institutions including Mount St. Mary's College in Maryland and St. John's College (now Fordham University), he initially pursued law but turned to art after receiving early drawing lessons from his maternal grandfather, a...