New Suite of Portfolios of Flowers Ideal to Use for Designing and Painting: Floral Fantasies
Anne Allen (British)
c. 1796
Medium
color etching
Dimensions
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Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
James Parmelee Fund
Accession Number
1968.39
Tags
femalemale
About this artwork
As a painter and decorative artist,Jean Baptiste Pillement ornamented a broad range of objects including ceramics, textiles, and other household objects. He employed several printmakers to copy his designs that were then disseminated throughout Europe. The best of the printmakers, Anne Allen, colored the etched plate à la poupée. Instead of making a plate for each color, a single plate is selectively inked in different colors using stumps of rags, known as dolls (poupée in French), so that the c...