Panel of Bizarre Silk / Artist Unknown, France
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1972/2.237
- Title
- Panel of Bizarre Silk
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, France
- Artist Nationality
- French
- Medium and Support
- silk, silver and gold threads
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1700-1715
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- France (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- France (nation)
- Credit Line
- The Paul Leroy Grigaut Memorial Collection
- Style/Group/Movement
- Rococo
- Dimensions
- 102.6 cm x 53 cm (40 3/8 in. x 20 7/8 in.)
- Century
- 18th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Textile
- Primary Object Type
- brocade
- Physical Description
- This brilliant coral-colored silk features an elaborate brocaded pattern consisting of exuberant sprays of flowers in yellow, blue, white, and gold thread joined to bunches of fruit and other ornament woven with silver thread. The ground is enlivened by a damask pattern of more schematic vegetal and geometric ornament that echoes these dominant motifs.
- Subject Matter
- The wildly complex pattern of this textile exemplifies a popular type of brocaded silk produced from ca. 1695 to ca. 1720 throughout western Europe, and particularly in France. Dubbed "Bizarre Silks" by later historians, these silks were inspired in part by oriental textiles. The patterns were changed annually to suit the changing fashions of the very wealthy, who used Bizarre Silks as material for both women's and men's dress.
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1485 x 853
- File Size
- 205 KB
- Record
- 1972/2.237
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"Panel of Bizarre Silk; Artist Unknown, France." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1972-sl-2.237/1972_2.237.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.
