About This Artwork
Designed by Philippe de LaSalle
French, 1723–1803/05
Panel Entitled "Branche de Corail"c. 1780/85
Silk and silk chenille yarns, plain weave with twill interlacings of secondary binding warp and facing wefts and with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and brocading wefts
263.9 x 73.6 cm (103 7/8 x 29 in.)
The Grace R. Smith Textile Endowment, 1984.98
Textiles
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
Bunt, Cyril C. The Silks of Lyons. Leigh-on-Sea (England: F. Lewis Publishers, Ltd., 1960), pl. 43.
The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1983-84.
Carlano, Marianne and Salmon, Larry, editors. French Textiles: From the Middle Ages through the Second Empire. Hartford, CT: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1985. P. 62. No. 35.