Les Travaux de la Manufacture (The Activities of the Factory) (Furnishing Fabric)

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Textiles

1783/84

Designed by Jean Baptiste Huet (French, 1745–1811)
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) , Oberkampf Manufactory (Manufacturer) , Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf (Producer)
Title: Les Travaux de la Manufacture (The Activities of the Factory) (Furnishing Fabric)
Places: Jouy-en-Josas (Object made in:), France (Object made in:)
Date: Made 1783-1784
Medium: Cotton, plain weave; copper-plate printed
Inscriptions: Manufacture Royale de S-D & Oberkampf
Dimensions: 100.4 × 91.7 cm (39 1/2 × 36 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Potter Palmer II
Reference Number: 1953.306
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Mildred Davison. “Printed Cotton Textiles,” The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 52, 4 (Dec. 1958): 87-88, (illus. on cover).
Christa Charlotte Mayer, Masterpieces of Western Textiles (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1969), 197, pl. 153.

Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of Western Textiles, Jan. 25–Mar. 2, 1969.
Art Institute of Chicago, Selected Works of Eighteenth Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 24–Mar. 28, 1976.
Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Gallery, Printed Fabrics from the Permanent Collection, Aug. 8, 1981–Jan. 31, 1982.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, European Textile Masterpieces from Coptic Times through the 19th Century, Sept. 27, 1989–Jan. 22, 1990.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, English and French Printed Textiles—History on Cloth, May 1–Aug. 11, 1991.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Engraved Imagery: Literary Subjects on Cloth, Feb. 22–May 14, 1995, brochure.

Bess B. Dahlquist, Chicago, by Dec. 16, 1953 [Incoming permanent receipt RX1129, Dec. 16, 1953; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1953.

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