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Jean-Baptiste Huet, Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf, Manufacture de Oberkampf

Les Monuments d’Egypte (Egyptian Monuments)

1807

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Jean-Baptiste Huet, Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf, Manufacture de Oberkampf

Les Monuments d’Egypte (Egyptian Monuments)

1807

Physical Qualities Cotton, 57 7/8 x 72 3/4 in. (147 x 184.8 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Dena S. Katzenberg, Baltimore
Object Number 1984.158
A rectangular panel of toile or engraved cylinder-printed cotton in sepia (brown) on white. The design consists of Egyptian monuments and figures drawn against a gridded background, the intersections of the grid being punctuated with a tiny tri-leaf designs. The motifs seen in the toile were derived from eight engravings including 'The Harbor of Alexandria' and 'Cleopatra's Needle' by Pagelet and Berthault after the painter Louis François Cassas (1756-1827). The panel is composed of two pieces (37-1/2'/35-1/2') seamed together. The panel includes approximately two-and-one-half vertical repeats, each measuring approximately 20-3/4'. The horizontal repeat appears to measure almost the entire width of the fabric (37'). The pieced panel includes slightly less than two complete horizontal repeats. The top and bottom edges are cut and unfinished. The top edge is uneven; the bottom edge is more even. The side edges appear also to be cut. The ground fabric is a balanced plain-woven cotton.
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1984; Dena S. Katzenberg Baltimore, MD.
Cooper, Wendy A. 'Classical Taste is America 1800-1840'. Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1993, no. 91, p. 293,
ill. p. 132, fig. 91.
Anita Jones, Patterns in a Revolution: French Printed Textiles, 1759-1821, Cincinnati: Taft Museum, 1990, p. 18; p. 30, fig. 14 (Cincinnati Art Museum's example); p. 39.
Josette Brédif, Printed French Fabrics: Toiles de Jouy, New York: Rizzoli, 1989, illus. pp. 150-151, p. 177.
Josette Brédif, L'Histoire vue à travers La Toile Imprimée, Jouy-en-Josas: Musée Oberkampf, 1981, pp. 25-26, cat. #51.
"Jean-Baptiste Huet after a drawing by Louis-Francois Cassas: Toile de Jouy: Les monuments de'Egypte (X. 404)". In Heilbrunn timeline of Art history. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000--http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/empr/ho_X.404htm, (October 2006)

Designer

Jean-Baptiste Huet

French, 1745-1811
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Manufacturer

Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf

French, born German, 1738 - 1815
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Manufacturer

Manufacture de Oberkampf

1789-1815
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