Design for Textile (?) with Trophy, "La vendange"

18th century
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 "la vendange" (the wine harvest), which contains two wooden bucket motifs and a straw basket filled with a bunch of grapes and with another bunch of grapes hanging from it. Some grape leaves emerge around the buckets and the basket, and a thin garland with leaves and stylized flowers, colored with brown and white, hangs from them. A wine bottle and a wine glass hang below one of the bottles, tied by thin ropes.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Design for Textile (?) with Trophy, "La vendange"
  • Artist: Anonymous, French, 18th century
  • Date: 18th century
  • Medium: Watercolor and ink
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 3 1/8 × 4 1/8 in. (8 × 10.4 cm)
  • Classifications: Drawings, Ornament & Architecture
  • Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928
  • Object Number: 28.76.12
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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