About This Artwork
Possibly based on a design by Jean Revel
French, 1684–1751
Chasublemid-18th century
Silk and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, satin weave with secondary binding warps, patterning and brocading wefts and self-patterning ground wefts; with cotton, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped cotton, woven tapes
Ties: cotton, twill weave
Interlinings and linings: cotton and linen, plain weaves, some glazed
105.9 x 73.3 cm (41 3/4 x 28 7/8 in.)
Warp repeat: 57.7 cm (22 3/4 in.)
Textile Purchase Fund, 2003.297
Textiles
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, “Gift, Bequest, and Purchase: 1998–2003,” October 22, 2004–April 17, 2005