Textile Design with Vertical Rows of Bunches of Stylized Flowers and Stems with Leaves Framed by a Shade of Thorns Separated by Vertical Garlands of Branches with an Undulating Ribbon with Pearls and Small Stylized Flowers Inside a Circular Frame
Medium
Gouache
Dimensions
Sheet: 7 15/16 × 7 13/16 in. (20.2 × 19.8 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(6.1)
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century · 1800–1900
**The artist known as Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century** remains unidentified by name, with no documented details of birth, family, training, or personal life. All known works are attributed solely through their style, medium, and provenance to an Alsatian creator active in the mid-19th century, particularly around 1840 in Mulhouse (then a key hub of textile manufacturing in the Haut-Rhin region ...