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

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 chasse" (hunting), contains a hunting trophy made up of a green cushion with lozenges and hanging tassels, a golden hunting trompet that wraps around it, and small brown hunting bags that hang from it, with two lances and an ax, from which hang thin garlands with green leaves and stylized flowers with blue and purple petals.

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Title: Design for Textile (?) with Trophy, "La chasse"
Artist: Anonymous, French, 18th century
Date: 18th century
Medium: Watercolor and ink
Dimensions: Sheet: 2 7/8 × 3 3/4 in. (7.3 × 9.6 cm)
Classifications: Drawings, Ornament & Architecture
Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928
Object Number: 28.76.15
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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