About This Artwork

Designed by Philippe de LaSalle
French, 1723–1803/5
Woven and produced by Camille Pernon & Cie
France, Lyon

Panel Woven for the Summer Palace of Empress Cathereine II of Russia, Tsarskoe Selo, c. 1775

Silk and linen, satin weave with brocading wefts; painted
192.4 x 54.8 cm (75 3/4 x 21 5/8 in.)
Warp repeat: 87.3 cm (34 3/8 in.)
Restricted gift of the Textile Society, 1983.748

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, Department of European Decorative Arts, Gallery 64, "European Textile Masterpieces from Coptic Times through the 19th Century," September 27, 1989–January 22, 1990

Publication History

Ernest Dumonthier. Etoffes d'ameublement de l'epoque napoleonienne (Paris: Schmid, 1909), p. 14.

Belle M. Borland. Philippe de LaSalle: His Contributions to the Textile Industry of Lyons (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1936). p. 17.

Cyril G. Bunt. The Silks of Lyon (Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, Publishers, Ltd., 1960), pp. 10-12.

Christa C. Mayer Thurman. "Some Major Textile Acquisitions from Europe and Egypt." Museum Studies, Vol. II, No. 1 (Fall 1984). p. 52-69.

V. Ann Waterman. Surface Pattern Design: A Handbook of How to Create Decorative and Repeat Patterns for Designers and Students (New York: Hastings House Publishers, 1984), p. 92.

Marianne Carlano and Larry Salmon, ed. French Textiles: From the Middle Ages through the Second Empire (Hartford, Connecticut: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1985), p. 62, no. 34.

Christa C. Mayer Thurman. Textiles in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), p. 89, 92 (Illus.), 146.

The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1993), p. 234 (Illus.).