Textile Design with a Network of Branches with Stylized Leaves and Flowers and Pearls Over a Stippled Background

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

1840 · Gouache · Drawings and Prints

Textile Design with a Network of Branches with Stylized Leaves and Flowers and Pearls Over a Stippled Background — Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Rectangular sheet of paper with a textile design from a group, dated 1840, made in Mulhouse, Alsace, which was an important nineteenth-century center for textile production in the Haut-Rhin region of France. The design consists of a network of branches with stylized leaves and flowers rendered with stipples of dark reddish-brown color over a light tan background with stipples of dark reddish-brown color. Pearls of white color with black outlines form the pistils of some of the flowers.

Artist: Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century
Date: 1840
Medium: Gouache
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library