The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of May 31, 2023

Taffeta

1774–1793

France, 18th century, Period of Louis XVI

(1774-1793)

Taffeta, brocaded and embroidered; silk, gold and silver

Overall: 60.6 x 54.6 cm (23 7/8 x 21 1/2 in.); Mounted: 67 x 60.3 cm (26 3/8 x 23 3/4 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1939.34

Location

not on view

Citations
Underhill, Gertrude. "Textiles from the H. A. Elsberg Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 26, no. 9 (1939): 143-46. p. 145 www.jstor.org
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. p. 157; no. 305
Exhibition history

Gallery 202 textile rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 25, 2012-June 3, 2013); (May 7, 2018-May 6, 2019).

In Pursuit of Fashion: Decorative Textiles in 18th Century France. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 1, 1989-March 3, 1991).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1939.34