The Pheasants from the 'Verdures du Vatican' series
The artist Dugourc started his career designing furniture, gilt bronzes and glorious silks for French royalty. Following the revolution, his loyalties turned to the new republic and his talents to paper designs including that most accessible and affordable of printed goods: playing cards. Increasingly disenchanted, however, the designer left France to work in Spain for the Bourbon monarchy there. Like other splendid panels in The Met's collection (2006.51.9a, b), Dugourc designed these colorful arabesque wall- and furnishing-silks for King Charles IV of Spain, ostensibly inspired (as their name suggests) by Raphael's frescoes in Rome but in their fantasy and variety – as one scholar has put it – "outdoing the most extravagant designs of the Ancien Régime".
Artwork Details
- Title: The Pheasants from the 'Verdures du Vatican' series
- Designer: Designed by Jean Démosthène Dugourc (French, Versailles 1749–1825 Paris)
- Manufactory: Woven by Maison Pernon et Cie.– Camille Pernon (French, 1753 – 1808)
- Date: ca. 1790
- Culture: French, Lyon
- Medium: Silk; discontinuous supplementary pattern wefts of silk yarns, with embroidery in silk in chain and satin stitches, on satin-weave ground.
- Dimensions: Overall: 94 x 17 3/4 in. (238.8 x 45.1 cm)
Framed: 93 1/2 x 19 x 2 1/8 in. (237.5 x 48.3 x 5.4 cm) - Classification: Textiles-Woven
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1935
- Object Number: 35.100
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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