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French, Jouy

Fleurs Tropicales et Palmiers (Tropical Flowers and Palm trees), 1787

Description

Maker

  • Unknown

Culture

French

Title

Fleurs Tropicales et Palmiers (Tropical Flowers and Palm trees)

Year

1787

Medium

Cotton, linen; plain weave, woodblock printed, quilted

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • linen,
  • cotton

Techniques

  • plain weave,
  • quilting,
  • block printed,
  • block-printed

Dimensions

Length: 69.9 cm (27 1/2 inches)

Place

Jouy

Type

  • Textiles

Credit

Gift of Mr. Francis C. Whitehead

Object Number

69.136.18

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

“Insnared with flowers, I fall on grass"

June 10, 2014 - March 8, 2015

Made in France, this textile exemplifies regional European interpretations of indiennes, or printed cottons from India. Immensely costly commodities, indiennes were contraband during the first half of the 18th century because their popularity threatened local wool and silk industries.

By 1759, when the French government repealed the ban on both imported and locally produced cotton textiles, the renowned Oberkampf factory in Jouy-en-Josas quickly sought to meet the demand, first utilizing woodblocks—as seen here—and later copperplates to make the repeating patterns. Today this region is still associated with fine floral and narrative-printed cottons, commonly known as toile de Jouy.

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The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Fleurs Tropicales et Palmiers (Tropical Flowers and Palm trees) with the accession number of 69.136.18. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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