Mise-en-carte and Sample for Woven Textile with Large Stylized Roses, and Thin Garlands and Bundles of Flowers and Leaves
Mise-en-carte (weaving pattern) for a woven textile (a) from the late-18th century, with design motifs typical of the time of Louis XVI, when textiles were decorated with colorful garlands of flowers and leaves, as well as other naturalistic motifs and garden trophies. This design is made up of undulating garlands of flowers and leaves, colored with black and carmine, hanging from a large stylized rose outlined with yellow and colored with gray, and bundles of roses with petals colored with shades of pink and stems and leaves colored with black and green, over a background of interlacing branches with small leaves, colored with orange.
Placed below the mise-en-carte is a fabric sample (b) with a fragment of what would have been the finished textile: the garlands of flowers and leaves are executed with black and blue, and the flower that holds them is executed in gray, barely visible above the background; the roses are executed with two different types of pink thread, and the stems and leaves with black and green. The background is executed with glossy gray threads and silver threads.
Placed below the mise-en-carte is a fabric sample (b) with a fragment of what would have been the finished textile: the garlands of flowers and leaves are executed with black and blue, and the flower that holds them is executed in gray, barely visible above the background; the roses are executed with two different types of pink thread, and the stems and leaves with black and green. The background is executed with glossy gray threads and silver threads.
Artwork Details
- Title: Mise-en-carte and Sample for Woven Textile with Large Stylized Roses, and Thin Garlands and Bundles of Flowers and Leaves
- Artist: Anonymous, French, 18th century
- Date: ca. 1775–1800
- Medium: Watercolor on squared paper; Woven textile
- Dimensions: Image: 14 5/16 × 8 1/8 in. (36.3 × 20.7 cm)
Sheet (mise-en-carte, a): 4 5/8 × 6 1/4 in. (11.7 × 15.8 cm)
Sheet (fabric sample, b): 4 13/16 × 3 11/16 in. (12.3 × 9.3 cm) - Classifications: Drawings, Ornament & Architecture
- Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928
- Object Number: 28.118.20(a,b)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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