Fire Screen Panel
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.This woven panel for a fire screen, given to Emperor Joseph II in 1777, was part of a limited stock Louis XVI exhausted through presents to Paul and Maria Feodorovna of Russia and to Gustav III of Sweden. This left the Savonnerie textile factory scrambling to adapt a larger folding screen panel into one suitable for a fire screen when the king later wanted to offer the same design to Prince Henry of Prussia.
Artwork Details
- Title: Fire Screen Panel
- Manufactory: Savonnerie Manufactory (Manufactory, established 1626; Manufacture Royale, established 1663)
- Designer: After a design by Claude Audran III (French, Lyons 1658–1734 Paris)
- Date: before 1777; design, late 1720s; woven until second half of 18th century
- Culture: French
- Medium: Wool, possibly linen
- Dimensions: 37 × 30 7/8 in. (94 × 78.5 cm)
- Classification: Textiles
- Credit Line: MAK—Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna (T 8409)
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts