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Carroll
Parlor (Healy Hall 107)
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Gallery Exhibitions (Lauinger Library)
Spring 2008 (Januray 15
- April 25):
Carroll Parlor is open to the public several hours each week. Admission is free.
Monday
CLOSED
Tuesday 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Thursday 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Friday 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Carroll Parlour will be closed Feb 29 – Mar
10 for Spring Break and Mar 21 – 24 for Easter
Break.
Carroll Parlour also is available
by appointment for groups;
please call (202) 687-1469; or send
an e-mail.
Georgetown University's historic Carroll
Parlor, in
Healy Hall 107, was completed at the turn
of the twentieth century by Jesuit brother
Francis Schroen, who designed
and decorated the interior of Healy Hall,
including Gaston Hall, Riggs Library,
and the Hirst Room (now the
Bioethics Library). The elaborate gilded
designs on the room's ceiling and walls,
executed entirely by hand, combine the
symbols of religion and learning together
with neoclassical motifs and forms inspired
by nature. The twenty-foot-high ceiling
is emblazoned with the seals
of the University and the Society of Jesus,
while the reliefs covering the walls
employ classical symbols of
the light of knowledge, the oil lamp and
the flame. Below the chair rail, Schroen
molded the pattern of oak and
laurel leaves in a freestyle technique,
without the use of stencils.
 The room always has been maintained as a traditional
Victorian parlor. It was used for receptions,
such as the one for Cardinal Martinelli
in 1901; formal occasions,
including Jesuit funerals; and during
the 1960s, students were able to practice
on a Steinway piano installed in
the parlor if they made the necessary
arrangements beforehand. As in the past,
Carroll Parlor today displays highlights
from the University's Art Collection.
Work on view in Carroll Parlor includes
important examples from the Renaissance
and Baroque periods with works by the
Flemish "Master
of Hoogstraeten" and Sir Anthony Van Dyck - and
significant American paintings by Jasper
Francis Cropsey and Emmanuel Leutze, to
name a few.
One of the most important paintings in Carroll Parlor,
Luca Giordano's Calling of Saint Matthew (ca.
1700), which has hung in the same spot
since the parlor first opened,
was acquired from Miss Martha Meade, sister
of General George Gordon Meade (commander
of Union forces at Gettysburg), in 1860.
One of the largest Giordano paintings
in the United States, it belonged to Miss
Meade's father, who amassed an important
collection of Old Master paintings while
serving as U.S. Consul to Cadiz during
the Spanish Peninsular War. The subject
of the painting, popularized in 1600 by
Caravaggio's commission
for the Contarelli Chapel in the Church
of San Luigi dei Francesi
in Rome, is substantially lightened in
Giordano's narrative interpretation. He
includes an attentive dog growling
at a pair of lion paw feet beneath the
table at which Matthew counts his tax
revenues, and portrays his subject
in a light, Neapolitan palette with a
more decorative effect than did his famous
predecessor.
 Carroll Parlor was refurbished substantially
in 1982 with funds provided by the Class of 1971,
and recently (1999) has been absorbed
together with the University Art
Collection into the Special Collections
Division of Lauinger Library. The Library
plans to renovate the room, adding
much-needed climate control to preserve
the valuable antiques and art, and a state-of-the-art
lighting system
that will eliminate the current problem
of glare reflected off the paintings.
Paintings will be rehung in the "salon
style" favored during the American Renaissance
Revival, allowing more of the Collection's
treasures to be displayed.
For this ambitious undertaking, we are
hoping to find a generous sponsor to help
ensure the preservation of
Georgetown's impressive yet little-known
art and antiques collection in this unique
historic setting.
These are some of the works of art on view in Carroll
Parlor:
Eugene-Antoine Aizelin, Seated Female Figure with
Oil Lamp (bronze sculpture), nineteenth
century
Eugene-Antoine Aizelin,Draped Female
Figure (bronze sculpture), nineteenth century
Isidore-Jules Bonheur, Farmer, Child,
and Horse (bronze sculpture), nineteenth century
Maria (or Marie) Theresa Cassavetti-Zambaco, l'Amour irresistible
(Irresistible Love) (bronze sculpture), ca.1895.
Jean-Baptiste Clesinger, Standing Figure
with Laurel Wreath and Harp (bronze sculpture),
nineteenth century
Thomas Crawford, Boy with Tambourine (marble
sculpture), 1855
Jasper Francis Cropsey, Sunset Over the Hudson River, 1873
Etienne-Henri Dumaige, Seated Draped Female Figure (bronze
sculpture), nineteenth century
C. W. Fleischman, Georgetown Viewed from
Roslin (sic), 1883
Luca Giordano, The Calling of Saint Matthew, ca.1700
Jean-Louis Gregoire, Female Figure with
Missal and Bag of Alms (bronze sculpture), nineteenth
century
Master of Hoogstraeten, (Dirk van Hoogstraeten),
Madonna and Child with Saints, ca.1525
Jean-Antoine Houdon (after); George Washington (bronze
sculpture), nineteenth century
Vinnie Ream Hoxie, Cardinal Antonelli, ca.
1850 (marble sculpture)
Sir Peter Lely (attributed), A Lady, ca.
1660
Emmanuel Leutze, Self-Portrait, 1843
J. Love, Sculling on the Potomac Below
Georgetown University, 1888
Raphael Sanzi (copy after), Madonna of
the Chair (della sedia), ca.1880
James A. Simpson, South East end view
of the Georgetown College, 1831
James A. Simpson, Georgetown College, 1833
Gilbert Stuart, Archibishop John Carroll, 1804
(formerly in Carroll Parlor)
Sir Anthony Van Dyck, Jean-Baptiste Janssens
van Bisthoven, ca. 1630
Unidentified (Vatican School, Italy), Birds and Flowers (micromosaic
on table), ca. 1890s
Unidentified, Candlestands, nineteenth
century
Unidentified (Italy and Northern Europe),
Cassones, ca. 1550
Unidentified, Chippendale-style chair, early nineteenth century
Unidentified (Meissen Music Factory, Dresden), Music
Stand, ca.
1774-1814
Unidentified (Italy), Pair of Chairs owned
by Giuseppe Cardinal Sarto (future Pius
X)
Unidentified (France), Saint Anne and
the Virgin (wood sculpture), thirteenth century
(also known as The Education of the Virgin)
Unidentified (United States),Wife and Husband, ca.1820
Unidentified (Russia) Icon of Saint Nicholas (silver gilt and painted), late
nineteenth century
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The Class of 1971 endowed the Carroll Parlour Art
Upkeep Fund. |
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