Point Paper (mise-en-carte)
Leblanc (Firm) (Possibly from the firm of Emile Leblanc)
c. 1880
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor (gouache) over graphite with black ink on mold paper
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 42.7 × 49.7 cm (16 7/8 × 19 5/8 in.); Matted: 46 × 55.8 cm (18 1/8 × 22 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Gift of Christopher Monkhouse in honor of Christa Thurman
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
This watercolor design of water lilies and other aquatic plants on paper is a mise-en-carte, or weaving draft, meant to serve as a bridge between the original design and the woven textile. Prepared on paper with a grid pattern whose lines represent warps and wefts, such drafts provided instructions for preparing the loom and for color usuage. Professional mise-en-carte readers were sometimes employed to assist the weavers and help them understand the designer's intensions. -A Global View: Recent Acquisitions of Textiles, 2012-2016, April 8-September 5, 2016
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
