Art Nouveau bedroom furnishings: three-leaf screen

This screen is part of the bedroom furnishings whose different elements (bed, wardrobe, psyche, dressing table) are also kept at the Mus�e d’Orsay, where the bedroom is now fully reconstructed.

To fill the lower part of the screen, there were probably two possibilities at the choice of the customer: a fabric in accordance with that of the upholstery of the bed and the walls or simple white glazing.

A contemporary critic wrote: “We must make a special place for the beautiful screen, a true work of art (…) The panels are stretched with fabrics at their lower part, while the top is made up of glass screens in which a flight of butterflies and dragonflies is embedded in the leads: agates, which work wonders here.”