# Point Paper (mise-en-carte)

- By: Leblanc (Firm) (Possibly from the firm of Emile Leblanc)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of Christopher Monkhouse in honor of Christa Thurman
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/217073)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/393929ec-b67e-67d4-3174-a945c016fcef/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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

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