Favre-Petitpierre et Cie.
"La danse des Graces" toile de Nantes, ca. 1802–10
cotton
49 x 31 in.
$800
Further images
'La Dances des Graces' (The Dance of the Graces) copperplate-printed cotton by Favre Petitpierre et Cie., In red, with chef de pièce partly visible along the bottom edge. Overall good...
"La Dances des Graces" (The Dance of the Graces) copperplate-printed cotton by Favre Petitpierre et Cie., In red, with chef de pièce partly visible along the bottom edge.
Overall good condition. Minor staining and marks. Mounted on modern muslin.
Literature
Illustrated in Henry-Rene d'Allemagne, La toile imprimée et les indiennes de traite (1942), pl. CXXI. For information on the Favre and Petitpierre toile manufactories, and their union in 1802, see Henri Clouzot, Histoire de la manufacture de Jouy et de la toile imprimée en France (1928), pp. 165-68.
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