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Bed hanging (Cornice)
La Leçon de Danse (The Dance Lesson)
Oberkampf Factory
1780-1790
Category
Textiles (Furnishing)
Creator/Artist/Maker
Oberkampf Factory (Printer)
Place of Origin
France; Europe
Materials
- Linen
- Cotton
- Wood
Museum Object Number
2009.0043 F
Credit Line/Donor
Gift of Cora Ginsburg LLC
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Object Number
2009.0043 F
Object Name
Bed hanging (Cornice)
Title
La Leçon de Danse (The Dance Lesson)
Category
Textiles (Furnishing)
Creator (Role)
Oberkampf Factory (Printer)
Place of Origin
France; Europe
Secondary Place of Origin
Jouy-En-Josas; France; Europe
Secondary Origin Notes
The textile this bed hanging was made from was printed at the Oberkampf factory in Jouy-en-Josas, France, c. 1785.
Date
1780-1790
Subject(s)
- Chinoiserie
Materials
- Linen
- Cotton
- Wood
Techniques
- Plate printed
- Mordant style
- Woven (plain)
Dimensions (inches)
22.25 (H) x 31.75 (W) x 28.25 (D)
Dimensions (centimeters)
56.515 (H) x 80.645 (W) x 71.755 (D)
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Storey, Joyce. 1974 The Thames and Hudson Manual of Textile Printing.
• Information on mordant style, pp. 11-12Chapter: 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, 101-104Book: Montgomery, Florence. 1970 Printed Textiles: English and American Cottons and Linens 1700-1850.
• Textile with same pattern in reverse, p. 269, fig. 279; information on Chinoiseries, pp. 265-269Book: D'Allemagne, Henry-René & Clouzot, Henri. 1942 La Toile Imprimée et les Indiennes de Traïte. II.
• Similar: pl. 182 as "La Lecon de Danse"Book: Sayer, Robert & Pillement, Jean Baptiste. 1959 Ladies Amusement or Whole Art of Japanning Made Easy (orig. c. 1760).
• Similar: pl. 52Book: Riffel, Melanie, et al. 2003 Toile De Jouy: Printed Textiles in the Classical French Style.
• Similar: p. 170-171, #235