Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Garlands of Stylized Leaves and Branches Decorated with Quatrefoils with an Ornamental Frame and Rosettes with Pearls
Medium
Gouache
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 5/8 × 5 1/4 in. (14.3 × 13.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Museum Accession, transferred from the Library
Accession Number
1978.671.5(7.1)
Art Historical Context
This exquisite gouache textile design, anonymously by an Alsatian artist in1840, captures the ornate elegance of 19th ornamental patterns. Titled *Textile Design with Altern Vertical Garlands of Styl Leaves and Branches Decorated Quatrefoils with Ornamental Frame andettes with Pearls*, features repeating vertical garlands of flowing leaves and branches, accented by geometric quatrefoils (fourobed motifs evoking Gothic architecture), a decorative frame, and pearl-studded rosettes. Rendered on a modest 5⅝ × 5¼-inch sheet, its compact scale suggests a sample for larger textile production, such as...