Fragment

Artwork details

Date:: 1750-75
Medium:: Silk, cut, uncut, and voided velvet with additional patterning wefts of gold foil (cut strips wound around silk core) against satin weave foundation
Culture:: France
Dimensions:: 1525 × 2250 px
Museum record:: View original

Screen of Six Sheets (310)

Paris Fire (Great Hall of the State Council), from the series "Paris Incendié"

Mottosinho near St. Jean d'El Rey, plate 20 from Landscapes, volume 1 of Voyage pittoresque dans le Brésil

Laundresses at Rio Janiero, plate 11 from Customs and traditions of Negroes, volume 4 of Voyage pittoresque dans le Brésil

Rio Parahybuna, plate 17 from Landscapes, volume 1 of Voyage pittoresque dans le Brésil

Barbacena, plate 18 from Landscapes, volume 1 of Voyage pittoresque dans le Brésil