L'Hommage de l'Amérique á la France (America's Tribute to France) (Furnishing Fabric)

Textiles

c. 1780

Design attributed to 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

Artist: Jean Baptiste Huet (Designer)
Title: L'Hommage de l'Amérique á la France (America's Tribute to France) (Furnishing Fabric)
Place: Jouy-en-Josas (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1780–1790
Medium: Cotton, plain weave; copperplate printed
Dimensions: 245.9 × 85 cm (96 3/4 × 33 1/2 in.); Warp repeat: H.: 100.5 cm (39 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Antiquarian Society
Reference Number: 1928.1186a
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Keefe, John W. The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago; The First One Hundred Years, (exhibition catalogue: The Art Institute of Chicago April 23-June 19,1977) . Chicago, 1977, p. 217, no. 289 (illus.)

1928.1186a:
The Art Institute of Chicago, Agnes Allerton Textile Gallery, English and French Printed Textiles: History on Cloth, May 1–August 11, 1991
The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, A Birthday Celebration: 100 Years of Antiquarian Society Textile Collecting 1890–1990, September 11–February 18, 1992
The Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 65, Department of European Decorative Arts, November 10, 1995- March 14, 1996
The Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 65, Department of European Decorative Arts, January 21- May 1, 1998
The Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 65, Department of European Decorative Arts, August 4,2000- January 19, 2001

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