Textile Design with Undulating Garlands of Stylized Flowers and Leaves Separated by Undulating Zig-Zagging Strips of Pearls

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

1840 · Gouache · Drawings and Prints

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 is made up of undulating garlands of stylized flowers and leaves of dark reddish-brown color with dots of light tan color separated by undulating strips of zig-zagging pearls over a light tan ground. The pistils of the flowers are colores with orange and purple and have red outlines; the pearls are colored with white. In the upper half of the design, the garlands of flowers and leaves have offsetting branches rendered with stipples of dark reddish-brown color and the background is decorated with stipples of the same color.

Artist

Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

Date

1840

Medium

Gouache

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Museum Accession, transferred from the Library