Panel
ca. 1855 (made)
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This leather panel was one of a set of three which the Museum bought from the Paris International Exhibition in 1855. The panels show different stages in production, from the first moulded design, with no colour, to intermediate states, with the moulded decoration covered partly in metal foil which is varnished to give the effect of gold leaf, and partly with colourful paints and varnishes.
'Gilt leather' as it is generally called, was first produced in the 17th century but was fashionable again in the 1850s and was produced in a variety of historic styles. The firm of Jacques Michel Dulud, who may have made these panels, exhibited at several international exhibitions, including the Great Exhibition in London in 1851. The firm was best known for making panels in the Gothic or Renaissance style (as here) but could also produce good imitations of 17th and 18th-century styles.
'Gilt leather' as it is generally called, was first produced in the 17th century but was fashionable again in the 1850s and was produced in a variety of historic styles. The firm of Jacques Michel Dulud, who may have made these panels, exhibited at several international exhibitions, including the Great Exhibition in London in 1851. The firm was best known for making panels in the Gothic or Renaissance style (as here) but could also produce good imitations of 17th and 18th-century styles.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Embossed and gilded leather |
| Brief description | Embossed leather panel, with moulded, foiled, varnished and painted decoration, with an overall cinque-cento arabesque pattern of lobed motifs and interlacing scrolls. Painted in green and a very dark blue, and heightened with gold. French, by Jacques Michel Dulud. Bought from the 1855 Paris International Exhibition. |
| Physical description | A rectangular panel of moulded leather, with foiled and varnished decoration to imitate gilding, against a painted background in dark green and black. The panel is almost square. It is composed of four different skins, of different sizes, skived and glued together. The joins are visible on the back surface. The design shows an overall pattern of scroll-framed lobed panels, with curving sides and pointed ends, set with interlaced formal flower-headed scrolls appearing as gilded against a ground of dark green, the areas between the lobed panels filled with similar decoration of larger size set against a black ground. The panel is just over half the size recorded in 1856. |
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| Object history | Acquired directly by the Museum at the Exposition Universelle, Paris 1855. See: Third Report of Department of Science and Art for 1855, pages 67, 80. Purchased for 12 shillings 6 pence. Related works: identical to V&A Museum no. 3798-1856. Part of it has been transferred to the Museum of Leathercraft, 16/01/1969 (RP 68/1871). |
| Production | Attributed to Dulud on the basis of a note in the original, printed Acquisitions Register, for 3698-1856, which is the same pattern. 'Cuirs Dulud' workshop,14 rue Vivienne, Paris. |
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| Summary | This leather panel was one of a set of three which the Museum bought from the Paris International Exhibition in 1855. The panels show different stages in production, from the first moulded design, with no colour, to intermediate states, with the moulded decoration covered partly in metal foil which is varnished to give the effect of gold leaf, and partly with colourful paints and varnishes. 'Gilt leather' as it is generally called, was first produced in the 17th century but was fashionable again in the 1850s and was produced in a variety of historic styles. The firm of Jacques Michel Dulud, who may have made these panels, exhibited at several international exhibitions, including the Great Exhibition in London in 1851. The firm was best known for making panels in the Gothic or Renaissance style (as here) but could also produce good imitations of 17th and 18th-century styles. |
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| Other number | Exhibitor no. 8075 (Exposition Universelle exhibition) - Exhibition number |
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| Accession number | 3696-1856 |
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| Record created | June 3, 2008 |
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