Woman in the Window

Tiffany’s Masterpiece Reunited
Woman in the Window follows the exciting discovery of the identity of the mysterious figure in an iconic Tiffany stained-glass window.

In 1911, the studios of Louis Comfort Tiffany created a beautiful stained-glass window for a lavish Gilded Age mansion called Pembroke on New Yorks Long Island. Commissioned by Captain Joseph Raphael De Lamar, a Dutch immigrant who made a vast fortune mining in the American West, the imagery of the window has long remained an enigma. New research by the Chrysler Museum of Art has led to the exciting rediscovery of three lost panels from this window and uncovered the hidden history of the windows significance and meaning. Woman in a Pergola with Wisteria depicts the renowned American opera singer Lillian Nordica (18571914), who is portrayed as the titular character of Verdis opera Ada. This publication reveals the poignant relationship between De Lamar