id:			118238
accession number:	1939.34
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.34
updated:		2025-10-24 11:01:11.561000

Taffeta, 1774–93. France, period of Louis XVI (1774–93). Taffeta, brocaded and embroidered; silk, gold, and silver; overall: 60.6 x 54.6 cm (23 7/8 x 21 1/2 in.); mounted: 67 x 60.3 cm (26 3/8 x 23 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1939.34

title:				Taffeta
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creation date:			1774–93
creation date earliest:		1774
creation date latest:		1793
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	France, period of Louis XVI (1774–93)
technique:	taffeta, brocaded and embroidered; silk, gold, and silver
department:	Textiles
collection:	Textiles
type:		Textile
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measurements: Overall: 60.6 x 54.6 cm (23 7/8 x 21 1/2 in.); Mounted: 67 x 60.3 cm (26 3/8 x 23 3/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		In Pursuit of Fashion: Decorative Textiles in 18th Century France
	opening date:   1989-08-01T04:00:00
	<i>In Pursuit of Fashion: Decorative Textiles in 18th Century France</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 1, 1989-March 3, 1991).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Gallery 202 textile rotation</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 25, 2012-June 3, 2013).', 'opening_date': '2012-06-25T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Gallery 202 textile rotation</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 7, 2018-May 6, 2019).', 'opening_date': '2018-05-07T04:00:00Z'}

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PROVENANCE

	(Estate of H. A. Elsberg [1869–1938], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1939
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1939–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Underhill, Gertrude. "Textiles from the H. A. Elsberg Collection." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 26, no. 9 (November 1939): 143–146.
	page number: 	p. 145
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25138043

	Weibel, Adèle Coulin. <em>Two Thousand Years of Textiles; The Figured Textiles of Europe and the Near East</em>. New York: Published for the Detroit Institute of Arts [by] Pantheon Books, 1952.
	page number: 	p. 157; no. 305
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