About This Artwork
Panel Entitled "Les travaux de la manufacture" (The Factory in Operation)1783/84
Cotton, plain weave; copperplate printed
100.4 x 91.7 cm (39 1/2 x 36 in.)
Inscription: Manufacture Royale de S-D & Oberkampf
Restricted gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer II, 1953.306
Textiles
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Masterpieces of Western Textiles," January 25–March 2, 1969
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Selected Works of Eighteenth Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago," January 24–March 28, 1976
"Printed Fabrics from the Permanent Collection," The Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery, August 8, 1981–January 31, 1982
The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, "European Textile Masterpieces from Coptic Times through the 19th Century," September 27, 1989–January 22, 1990
The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, "English and French Printed Textiles—History on Cloth," May 1–August 11, 1991
Publication History
Mildred Davison. "Printed Cotton Textiles," The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 52, 4 (December 1958), pp. 87-88, (illus. on cover).
Christa Charlotte Mayer. Masterpieces of Western Textiles (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1969), p. 197, pl. 153.
Susan Wise, ed. Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1976), pp. 214-215, pl. 340.
Marianne Carlano and Larry Salmon, editors. French Textiles from the Middle Ages through the Second Empire (Hartford, CT: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1985),
p. 146, 150, pl. 117, 123.