Design for Textile (?) with Trophy, "des herbage"
Anonymous, French, 18th century French
Not on view
Design for textile (?) that is part of a group of ten designs, all containing trophies and pasted on sheets of blue paper with frames hand-drawn with black and pasted and rendered with metallic pigment. The type trophies in the designs, which are inspired on gardening and other outdoor activities, were common in the eighteenth century and could be used in wallpapers, tapestries and even as textiles for furniture.
This design, titled "des herbage", contains a brown straw basket motif around which gather bundles of vegetables, including three different types of carrots, some brown, some orange and some purple and gray, a bundle with three beets, a purple cabbage and a large green lettuce, as well as some thin garlands with green leaves and small flowers.