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Collection Online as of December 1, 2023

Fire Screen Panel

c. 1775

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Jacques Neilson

manufacturer

Gobelins Manufactory

(France, Paris, est. 1662)

after a design by Jean-Baptiste Marie Hüet

(French, 1745–1811)

after a design by Maurice Jacques

(French, 1712–1784)

France, 18th century

Tapestry weave: silk and wool

Overall: 79.1 x 56.2 cm (31 1/8 x 22 1/8 in.)

Bequest of John L. Severance 1942.821.a

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

lower right: "Neilson. ex.."

Inscription

Woven into textile: Neilson. ex.

Gobelins Manufactory

For more information: http://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/view/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.001.0001/oao-9781884446054-e-7000032919
Provenance
Duke of Buckingham.
Citations
Catalogue of the John L. Severance Collection: Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942. Reproduced: p. [56], Plate XXVII, cat. no. 123; Mention: p. 60, cat. no. 123 archive.org
Milliken, William M., Gertrude Underhill, and Jean Mailey. "Department of Decorative Arts." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 29, no. 9 (1942): 137-51. p. 148-9 www.jstor.org
Exhibition history

Gallery 202 textile rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 9, 2016-May 8, 2017).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1942.821.a