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Panel of Chintz for a Woman's Skirt
Made in India possibly for the Dutch or Latin American market
1730-50
- Medium
- Cotton, plain weave; hand painted and dyed
- Classification
- Textile
- Dimensions
- 363.9 × 113.7 cm (143 1/4 × 44 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- India
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Gift of Van Ry and Ter Gast for the Hibbard Dutch Room
- 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
Starting in the early 1600s Portuguese traders brought Indian hand-dyed fabrics to Europe, where the Hindi name for them, chint, became chintz. During this same period, Spanish conquests in the Western Hemisphere led to direct trade between Asia and the Americas. This lively patterned chintz displays scrolls and flowers typical of a European design vocabulary as well as tiny scenes of animals and hunters. It exemplifies the creative designs that captivated global consumers and may have been made for the Dutch market, although it could equally have been worn by a woman in New Spain in the 1700s.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
