Psyche et L'Armour (The Story of Cupid and Psyche) (Furnishing Fabric)

Textiles

c. 1790

Manufactured by Gorgerat Frères et Cie (French, 1783-1815)
France, Nantes

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Gorgerat Frères et Cie. (Manufacturer)
Title: Psyche et L'Armour (The Story of Cupid and Psyche) (Furnishing Fabric)
Places: Nantes (Object made in:), France (Object made in:)
Date: Made 1790-1810
Medium: Cotton, plain weave; copperplate printed; painted
Dimensions: 92 × 86.9 cm (36 1/4 × 34 1/4 in.); Warp repeat: H.: 85.7 cm (33 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Julian Armstrong, Jr.
Reference Number: 1976.65
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Musée de l’Impression sur Etoffes de Mulhouse. Toiles de Nantes des XVIII et XIX Siécles. Exhibition, Paris , Nantes and Mulhouse. Mulhouse, l977-78, pp. 46-7, no. 23 (illus. MISE 976.126.1).

Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Engraved Imagery: Literary Subjects on Cloth, Feb. 22–May 14, 1995, brochure.

Elinor Merrell (died 1993), Elinor Merrell Antiques, New York, by 1976 [invoice, Apr. 29, 1976; permanent receipt RX10586, May 7, 1976, in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1976

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