Les Plaisirs des Quatre Saisons (Pleasures of the Four Seasons) (Furnishing Fabric)

Textiles

c. 1785

Designed by Jean Baptiste Huet (French, 1745–1811)) after Jacques Stella (French, 1596–1657) and Claudine Stella (French, 1636–1697)
Manufactured by Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf (naturalized French, 1738-1815), Oberkampf Manufactory (French, 1760-1843)
Jouy-en-Josas, France

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artists: Jean Baptiste Huet (Designer) , Jacques Stella , Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella (Engraver) , François Boucher , Jacques Aliamet (Engraver) , Philips Wouwerman , Jacques Philippe Le Bas (Engraver) , Oberkampf Manufactory (Manufacturer) , Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf (Producer)
Title: Les Plaisirs des Quatre Saisons (Pleasures of the Four Seasons) (Furnishing Fabric)
Places: France (Object made in:), Jouy-en-Josas (Object made in:)
Date: Made 1783-1789
Medium: Cotton, plain weave; copperplate printed
Dimensions: 271.6 × 126.1 cm (102 × 46 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer, II
Reference Number: 1949.955
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Mildred Davison, “Printed Cotton Textiles,” The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 52, 4 (Dec. 1958), 87.
Mayer, Christa C. Mayer, Masterpieces of Western Textiles, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1969), 198, pl. 154.
Art Institute of Chicago. Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collection of The Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1976), 215, no. 341 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of Western Textiles, Jan. 25–Mar. 2, 1969.
Art Institute of Chicago, Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, January 24–Mar. 28, 1976
The Art Institute of Chicago, Regenstein East, “A Case for Wine: From King Tut to Today,” July 11 – Sept. 20, 2009.

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