Cleveland Museum of Art
Flower Embroidery Design for Silk Manufactory of Lyon
Jean Baptiste PillementLinkedCulture matchlcp-1479ad43e105
- Date
- c. 1790
- Medium
- black and colored crayon on wove paper
- Culture
- France, 18th century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 87284
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This drawing features a floral design intended for use by the silk manufactory in Lyon, a city with a long tradition in this industry. Jean Baptiste Pillement’s chalk drawings were translated not only into fabric, but also prints, which circulated and spread his style widely. Here, he used a small range of colors and repeated forms to create an appealing decorative motif. Jean Baptiste Pillement not only created designs for silk manufacture, he also is credited with inventing a new technique for printing on fabric.
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- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Provenance
- April 27, 1977: Sotheby's, London, England | Shepherd Gallery, New York, NY | 1977-1980: Mr. Noah L. Butkin [1918-1980] | 1980-2005: Mrs. Muriel Butkin [1915-2008] | March 4, 2019: the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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