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Fire Screen Panel

Designer After a design by Claude Audran III French
before 1777; design, late 1720s; woven until second half of 18th century
Not on view
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

Object Information
  • 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