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Les Monuments d’Egypte (Egyptian Monuments)

1807

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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.
Wendy A. Cooper, BMA, 'Classical Taste is America 1800-1840, June 27-September 26, 1993, no. 91, p. 293, ill. p. 132, fig. 91; circulated to Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, N.C. (November 20, 1993-March 13, 1994); The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX. (May 1- July 24, 1994).

New Orleans Museum of Art, "Jefferson's America and Napoleon's France," April 12, 2003 - August 31, 2003.
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.

Designer

Jean-Baptiste Huet

1744–1810

French, 1745-1811
Meet Jean-Baptiste Huet

Manufacturer

Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf

1737–1814

French, born German, 1738 - 1815
Meet Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf

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