“Les Arts” Furnishing Fabric
Hippolyte Lebas (French, 1782–1867)
c. 1816
- Medium
- Cotton; roller printed
- Classification
- Textile
- Dimensions
- 258.4 × 215.3 cm (101 3/4 × 84 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Elizabeth M. Schultz Endowment Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
The late 18th and early 19th centuries were an incredibly fertile period for innovation in the European textile industries, especially in the field of direct printing. Decades of experimentation led to the development of a variety of ways to apply color and pattern to cloth, which enabled artists and designers to invent new design vocabularies and quickly respond to cultural trends and ideas. One of the most enduring of these innovations was the ability to print on cloth with copperplates and then subsequently with engraved copper metal rollers. The quality of detail achieved through this method was unrivaled in terms of clarity, precision.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
