Style Neo-gothic / Ref.1029

Stained glass window from a chapel with Saint Anne as central figure

19th century Neo-Gothic style stained glass window from a chapel in Bordeaux signed Mauméjean. Featuring three hieratic standing figures placed on pedestals each in a separate stained glass panel. The central figure is a female Saint dressed in green and antique pink standing with her hands joined together in prayer. On her left stands a man with a long white beard in a bright red robe, with his arms crossed as he gazes at the future (a patriarch?). On her right stands a younger bearded man in a maroon dress holding a burning staff (Moses?). Above are three rosettes, two side by side with pairs of flying angel faces with colourful wings, and at the top another rosette with a single green winged angel. The colours of the stained glass are strikingly bright, the features have been painted with attention to detail. Unfortunately we were unable to salvage the stone frame. This stained glass window is one of three – see items # 1027 and 1028.

The Mauméjean stained glass dynasty of Masters
After a dormant century with mediocre productions and the closing of stained glass firms everywhere, the renewed interest for religion and Medieval culture in the 19th century brought about a revival of an art that could have become extinct - and this as early as 1850, with the work of a few masters like Chevenard and Alaux.
Jules Pierre Mauméjean, from Pau the first of the line opened a glass and mosaic workshop in 1867.
His three sons, Joseph, Henri and Charles continued and developed the firm. The workshops were in the town of Hendaye, and the central offices in Paris, on rue Bezout. The Mauméjean company participated in all the great exhibitions in France and abroad earning many awards and praise notably at the World’s fairs.
Their work is found in churches and buildings classified as historical landmarks, although many were destroyed because of the war or urban restructuring.