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Les Huit Mois

Furnishing Fabric
1780-1800 (manufactured)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Furnishing fabric, plate-printed cotton. Four scenes printed in red on a white ground, various figures in outside scenes representing the seasons, three scenes intact on this fragment.

Above: Scene beside a lake, large building in background, fisherman, two women, one holding a distaff, the other a basket, and a workman doing with a tree stump.

Lower left: Male and female peasant dancing while other peasant women sit looking on, beside a bridge over a river and small buildings in background

Lower right: Man and woman in formal garden surrounded by statues, urns, topiary and fountain, a barefoot slave brings a tray of fruit to the woman while man holds a parasol over her head. Another kneeling servant picks flowers.

Object details

Category
Object type
TitleLes Huit Mois (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Plate-printed cotton
Brief description
'Les Huit Mois' furnishing fabric panel, 1750-1774, French; Nantes, made by Favre Petitpierre et Cie
Physical description
Furnishing fabric, plate-printed cotton. Four scenes printed in red on a white ground, various figures in outside scenes representing the seasons, three scenes intact on this fragment.

Above: Scene beside a lake, large building in background, fisherman, two women, one holding a distaff, the other a basket, and a workman doing with a tree stump.

Lower left: Male and female peasant dancing while other peasant women sit looking on, beside a bridge over a river and small buildings in background

Lower right: Man and woman in formal garden surrounded by statues, urns, topiary and fountain, a barefoot slave brings a tray of fruit to the woman while man holds a parasol over her head. Another kneeling servant picks flowers.
Dimensions
  • Length: 92.7cm (Note: measurement converted from department register)
  • Width: 92.1cm (Note: measurement converted from department register)
Credit line
Mayoux Collection
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
T.404-1919

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Record createdApril 20, 2009
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