Hippolyte Lebas and Oberkampf les héritiers
La Marchande d’amour (The Love Merchant or The Cupid Seller)
c. 1817
Scroll
- Designer: Hippolyte Lebas
- Manufacturer: Oberkampf les héritiers
La Marchande d’amour (The Love Merchant or The Cupid Seller)
c. 1817
Physical Qualities
Cotton, 27 1/2 x 39 in. (69.9 x 99.1 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Dena S. Katzenberg, Baltimore
Object Number
1984.171
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1984; Dena S. Katzenberg by purchase, Baltimore, MD; Elinor Merrill, New York, NY.
Anita Jones, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Toiles de Jouy," March 15-June 26, 1988, no catalogue.
Anita Jones, Taft Museum, Cincinnati, "Patterns in a Revolution: French Printed Textiles, 1759-1821," July 14-August 26, 1990, fig. 19, p. 35; p. 22.
Anita Jones, Taft Museum, Cincinnati, "Patterns in a Revolution: French Printed Textiles, 1759-1821," July 14-August 26, 1990, fig. 19, p. 35; p. 22.
Inscribed: On paper tag formerly attached to piece: Obverse: [stamped] 'J. H. INC.'/[written in ink] '1798/ La Marchande/ d'Amour'/ [added in pencil] 'H.' [in ink] 'Lebas' [added in pencil '(Hippo)'/ Clouzot/ Plate XXXVIII'; Reverse: [written] 'L 76.5.15'/ [printed] 'No. 8H/ Tag made by/ Waterbury/ Tag Co./ Waterbury, Conn.'
