Length of furnishing fabric
This silk lampas has been identified as part of a larger commission made by Napoleon to the silk weaver, Camille Pernon, in 1806 for hundreds of meters of silk to furnish the emperor's throne room at Versailles. The commission being completed by the Grand Frêres manufactory – also operating in Lyon – following Pernon's death, the silks were eventually used not for Versailles but at the palace of Saint-Cloud, for the salon de famille. They were subsequently removed during an 1826 refurbishment, during the short-lived return of a Bourbon monarch to the French throne, Charles X.
Artwork Details
- Title: Length of furnishing fabric
- Manufactory: Woven by Maison Pernon et Cie.– Camille Pernon (French, 1753 – 1808)
- Manufactory: or woven by Grand Frères
- Date: ca. 1807–1808
- Culture: French, Lyon
- Medium: Woven silk
- Dimensions: L. 131 x W. 42 inches (332.7 x 106.7 cm)
- Classification: Textiles-Woven
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1936
- Object Number: 36.139
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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