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Woven Portrait (France)
This is a Woven portrait. It was manufactured by Michel-Marie Carquillat. It is dated mid-19th century and we acquired it in 1962. Its medium is silk and its technique is jacquard woven: warp-faced plain weave (white) with supplementary weft patterning (black). It is a part of the Textiles department.
At the beginning of the century, Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1752-1834) introduced a revolutionary new weaving technology, controlled by punch cards--a precursor to twentieth-century computer technology--that by 1840's had become widely used to weave astonishingly detailed images in silk. Jacquard fabrics--scarves, shawls, tablecoths, hangings--proliferated in middle-class homes throughout Europe. This meta-portrait of Jacquard and his invention was woven on a loom equipped with a Jacquard mechanism.
This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled Meet Monsieur Jacquard.
This object was
bequest of
Richard Cranch Greenleaf (American, 1887–1961).
It is credited Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf.
- Square (Egypt)
- wool.
- Gift of John Pierpont Morgan.
- 1902-1-72
- Textile, Cloned Line
- cotton.
- Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. Florence Matthews, Mrs. Edward Stern,....
- 1996-105-1
Its dimensions are
Warp x Weft: 44.5 x 34.3 cm (17 1/2 x 13 1/2 in.) Loom width: 17 1/2 in.
Cite this object as
Woven Portrait (France); Manufactured by Michel-Marie Carquillat (Michel-Marie Carquillat (French, 1803–1884)); silk; Warp x Weft: 44.5 x 34.3 cm (17 1/2 x 13 1/2 in.) Loom width: 17 1/2 in.; Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf; 1962-56-39
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Faster, Cheaper, Newer, More: The Revolutions of 1848.
