About this artwork
Designs for silk weaving were drawn by professional artists who had often trained in flower painting, a skill that could be deployed for the decoration of objects besides textiles. The designs were painted on the point paper grid, which then served as a guide to the person mounting the threads on the loom. The artists’ names do not appear on these technical drawings; only the companies that commissioned the designs and wove the silk are identified.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Textiles
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Artist
- Germain Frères (Producer)
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Title
- Mise-en-Carte (Point-Paper)
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Place
- Lyon (Object made in)
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Date
- Made 1760–1769
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Medium
- Opaque watercolor over etching in black ink on cream laid paper
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Inscriptions
- Inscription (front): No 451 Dessein de chez Germain frères.; (reverse): 8 en 11 chez Veret a lion
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Dimensions
- Image: 42.5 × 52.8 cm (16 3/4 × 20 13/16 in.); Plate: 44 × 53 cm (17 3/8 × 20 7/8 in.); Sheet: 45 × 55.7 cm (17 3/4 × 21 15/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Purchased with funds provided by Neil P. Frankel, Nina Hancock, Robert D. Kleinschmidt; Royalties from F. Schumacher and Company
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Reference Number
- 1996.52.20
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/148920/manifest.json
Extended information about this artwork
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