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A 'VERRE EGLOMISE' PANEL FROM 'THE RAPE OF EUROPA' MURAL FOR THE GRAND LOUNGE OF THE OCEAN LINER 'NORMANDIE'

JEAN DUPAS, THE GLASS BY JACQUES CHARLES CHAMPIGNEULLE, CA. 1934

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A 'VERRE EGLOMISE' PANEL FROM 'THE RAPE OF EUROPA' MURAL FOR THE GRAND LOUNGE OF THE OCEAN LINER 'NORMANDIE'
JEAN DUPAS, THE GLASS BY JACQUES CHARLES CHAMPIGNEULLE, CA. 1934
THE SINGLE PANEL DEPICTING THE STERN OF A SAILING CRAFT WITH PART OF AN OAR IN THE WATER, THE UNDULATING SEA AND THE CANOPY FRAME FOR ANOTHER CRAFT.

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BRUNO FOUCART ET AL., NORMANDIE, QUEEN OF THE SEAS. 1985, P. 70

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拍品专文

THE DESIGN FOR THE GRAND SALON COMBINED THE GODS AND GODDESSES OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY WITH THE HISTORY OF MODERN NAVIGATION. THIS IDEA ORIGINATED WITH THE ROOM'S ARCHITECT, ROGER-HENRI EXPERT (1882-1955) AND CONSISTED OF FOUR OVERSIZE VERRE EGLOMISE MURALS WHICH WOULD RATE COMPARISONS WITH THE HALL OF MIRRORS AT VERSAILLES. THE FOUR MURALS DEPICTED: THE CHARIOT OF POSEIDON ON THE PORT SIDE, THE RAPE OF EUROPA ON THE STARBOARD SIDE, THE CHARIOT OF THETIS ON THE SMOKING ROOM STARBOARD SIDE AND THE BIRTH OF APHRODITE

THE "RAPE OF EUROPA" MURAL COULD BE FOUND IN THE MAIN GALLERY OF THE GRAND LOUNGE OF THE NORMANDIE. THE MURAL DEPICTS THE LEGEND OF ZEUS, WHO WAS ENAMORED OF EUROPA, AND DECIDED TO SEDUCE HER. ZEUS TRANSFORMED HIMSELF INTO A WHITE BULL AND MIXED IN WITH HER FATHER'S HERDS. WHILE EUROPA AND HER FEMALE ATTENDANTS WERE GATHERING FLOWERS, SHE SAW THE BULL AND CARESSED HIS FLANKS AND EVENTUALLY GOT ONTO ITS BACK. ZEUS TOOK THAT CHANCE AND RAN TO THE SEA AND SWAM, WITH HER ON HIS BACK, TO THE ISLAND OF CRETE TO BE WELCOMED BY MINOS. ZEUS THEN REVEALED HIS TRUE IDENTITY, AND EUROPA BECAME THE FIRST QUEEN OF CRETE. ZEUS GAVE HER THREE GIFTS: TALOS, LAELAPS AND A JAVELIN THAT NEVER MISSED.