Panel (Furnishing Fabric)
Jean Baptiste Huet (Jouy-en-Josas or Nantes, France)
c. 1786
- Medium
- Linen, plain weave; copperplate printed
- Classification
- Textile
- Dimensions
- 274 × 99.1 cm (107 7/8 × 39 in.); Warp repeat: H.: 92.2 cm (36 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- Jouy-en-Josas
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Gift of Robert Allerton
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Copperplate printing reached England via Ireland and then found its way to France, where one of the country’s most important printing centers was established at Jouy-en-Josas by Christopher-Philippe Oberkampf in 1760. Jean-Baptiste Huet trained as a painter and was chief designer at the Jouy-en-Josas Manufactory for twenty-eight years. His chinoiserie scene presents a theme that fascinated Europeans, particularly during the eighteenth century. Entire rooms in palaces and hotels were decorated with furniture, porcelain, metal, lacquerwork, and fabrics, all conceived as whimsical, highly westernized versions of Far Eastern forms, designs, and motifs. Many a European garden encompassed a latticed teahouse or pagoda not unlike those pictured here. Panels such as this, with their large-scale repeats, would have been used on chairs and sofas, as well as to cover vast expanses of wall.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
