id:			144046
accession number:	1968.39
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url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.39
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New Suite of Portfolios of Flowers Ideal to Use for Designing and Painting: Floral Fantasies, c. 1796. Anne Allen (British), after Jean Baptiste Pillement (French, 1728-1808). Color etching; platemark: 19.6 x 14 cm (7 11/16 x 5 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, James Parmelee Fund 1968.39

title:				New Suite of Portfolios of Flowers Ideal to Use for Designing and Painting: Floral Fantasies
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creation date:			c. 1796
creation date earliest:		1791
creation date latest:		1801
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creditline:			James Parmelee Fund
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culture:	France, 18th century
technique:	color etching
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Etching
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Roux: Inventaire du Fonds Français; graveurs du XVIIIe siecle, Vol. I, p. 152, 2

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CREATORS

* Anne Allen (British)  - artist

* Jean Baptiste Pillement (French, 1728-1808)  - artist
In the early part of his career, he worked as a textile designer at the Gobelins factory, and as a decorative painter in Spain and Portugal. He eventually moved to London, where in 1955 he published the first of many books of Chinoiserie designs. However, he was most well-known for his prints of flowers. His popularity waned significantly when Rococo design fell out of fashion at the end of the century.
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measurements: Platemark: 19.6 x 14 cm (7 11/16 x 5 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1968
	opening date:   1969-01-29T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1968</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969).

	title:		Highlights of the Rococo: Norweb Ceramics and Related Arts
	opening date:   1983-11-11T05:00:00
	<i>Highlights of the Rococo: Norweb Ceramics and Related Arts</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 11, 1983-June 3, 1984).

	title:		Inventive Impressions:  18th- and 19-Century French Prints
	opening date:   2001-08-26T00:00:00
	<i>Inventive Impressions:  18th- and 19-Century French Prints</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001).

	title:		The Flowering of the Botanical Print
	opening date:   2016-03-26T00:00:00
	<i>The Flowering of the Botanical Print</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 26-July 3, 2016).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

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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 <em>à la poupée.</em> Instead of making a plate for each color, a single plate is selectively inked in different colors using stumps of rags, known as dolls (<em>poupée </em>in French), so that the complete design is printed at one time.
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