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France developed a thriving silk industry in Lyon with the goal of becoming the fashion center of Europe. Employment soared to some 20,000 workers by the time of the French Revolution in 1789. Designs changed annually, colors established new fashions, and spectacular silks were produced during the late 1700s. Dugourc, an architect who studied in Italy, became a renowned textile designer for Camille Pernon & Cie, purveyors to King Louis XVI (reigned 1774–92). He created this elaborate, balanced composition as part of elegant wall coverings for the Casita del Labrador, near Madrid. Dugourc named the series after frescos by Raphael in the Vatican.
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115071
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Wall Covering, "The Pheasants" from the "Vatican Verdures" Series
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115071
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object
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Wall Covering, "The Pheasants" from the "Vatican Verdures" Series
description
France developed a thriving silk industry in Lyon with the goal of becoming the fashion center of Europe. Employment soared to some 20,000 workers by the time of the French Revolution in 1789. Designs changed annually, colors established new fashions, and spectacular silks were produced during the late 1700s. Dugourc, an architect who studied in Italy, became a renowned textile designer for Camille Pernon & Cie, purveyors to King Louis XVI (reigned 1774–92). He created this elaborate, balanced composition as part of elegant wall coverings for the Casita del Labrador, near Madrid. Dugourc named the series after frescos by Raphael in the Vatican.
date
after 1799
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60739987
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25031
25034
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Textile
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1
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import
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Overall: 237 x 45.7 cm (93 5/16 x 18 in.)
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France, 18th century
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1935.237
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lampas (satin weave and plain weave variant), brocaded, embroidered (chain, satin stitches); silk
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Wall Covering, "The Pheasants" from the "Vatican Verdures" Series, after 1799. Jean-Démosthène Dugourc (French, 1749–1825), Camille Pernon & Cie (French). Lampas (satin weave and plain weave variant), brocaded, embroidered (chain, satin stitches); silk; overall: 237 x 45.7 cm (93 5/16 x 18 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1935.237
collection
Textiles
citations
citation
Underhill, Gertrude. "Two Eighteenth-Century French Silks." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 23, no. 3 (1936).
page_number
p. 36-43
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www.jstor.org/stable/25137757
citation
Los Angeles County Museum. 2000 Years of Silk Weaving: An Exhibition Sponsored by the Los Angeles County Museum in Collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts. 1944.
page_number
no. 360, pl. 77
citation
Weibel, Adèle Coulin. Two Thousand Years of Textiles; The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East. New York: Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts [by] Pantheon Books, 1952.
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p. 161, no. 325, a
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
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Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 319
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
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Reproduced: p. 157
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
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Reproduced: p. 157
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
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Reproduced: p. 188
citation
Jolly, Anna. Fürstliche Interieurs: Dekorationstextilien des 18. Jahrhunderts. Riggisberg: Abegg-Stiftung, 2005.
page_number
cat. no 35, p. 178-182
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Dudley P. Allen Fund
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2026-05-29 06:01:26.820000
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115071
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Textiles
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Textiles
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lampas (satin weave and plain weave variant), brocaded, embroidered (chain, satin stitches); silk
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