Object Number 1957.1357 C

Object Name

Window hanging (Valance)

Title

The Four Continents

Category

Textiles (Furnishing)

Credit Line/Donor

Gift of Henry Francis du Pont

Creator (Role)

Jean-Baptiste Huet (Fabric designer)
10/15/1745-8/27/1811
Jean-Baptiste Huet was trained in the studio of Le Prince. He was accepted by the Academy in 1769 as a painter of animals. He started working for Oberkampf in 1783 with his design for Les Travaux de la manufacture (The activities of the factory) and continued until his death in 1811. Throughout his career his style changed as tastes changed. His first genre was pastoral painting around 1773. His next style consists of elements typical of the Louis XVI style. Then from 1796 his work gradually became more geometric. While working with Oberkamf he produced 32 different designs, plus another ten which remained in the preparatory stages. (Riffel, Melanie et. al., Toile de Jouy, 2003, pp. 42-45)

Place of Origin

Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Origin Notes

These window hangings were made in the first half of the 20th century.

Secondary Place of Origin

Jouy-En-Josas, France, Europe

Secondary Origin Notes

This textile was designed by Jean-Baptiste Huet and printed at the Oberkampf Manufactory in Jouy-en-Josas, France between 1780 and 1800.

Date

1938-1957

Subjects

The Four Continents

Materials

Cotton

Techniques

Woven (plain), Plate printed, Raised style

Dimensions (inches)

Dimensions (centimeters)

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Grant, Sarah. 2010 Toiles de Jouy, French Printed Cottons 1760-1830.
• Textile with same pattern (in red), p. 102, pl. 54.
[Book] Riffel, Melanie, et al. 2003 Toile De Jouy: Printed Textiles in the Classical French Style.
• Textile with same pattern (in red), p. 172-173, figs. 238 and 239.
[Book] Bredif, Josette. 1989 Printed French Fabrics: Toiles de Jouy.
• Textile with same pattern (in red), p. 56.
[Book] Clouzot, Henri & Morris, Frances. 1927 Painted and Printed Fabrics : The History of the Manufactory at Jouy and Other Ateliers in France 1760-1815.
• Textile with same pattern (in red), pl. XXVI
[Book] Storey, Joyce. 1974 The Thames and Hudson Manual of Textile Printing.
• Information on mordant style, pp. 11-12
[Chapter] Bide, Martin. Secrets of the Printer's Palette, Colors & Dyes in Rhode Island Quilts [Book] Welters, Linda & Ordoñez, Margaret. Down by the Old Mill Stream: Quilts in Rhode Island. 83-121.
• Information on mordant style, pp. 88, 101-104