id: 87284 accession number: 2019.67 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.67 updated: 2025-02-08 22:05:46.803000 Flower Embroidery Design for Silk Manufactory of Lyon, c. 1790. Jean Baptiste Pillement (French, 1728–1808). Black and colored crayon on wove paper; sheet: 22.2 x 24.4 cm (8 3/4 x 9 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2019.67 title: Flower Embroidery Design for Silk Manufactory of Lyon title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1790 creation date earliest: 1785 creation date latest: 1795 current location: creditline: Bequest of Muriel Butkin copyright: --- culture: France, 18th century technique: black and colored crayon on wove paper department: Drawings collection: DR - French type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * 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. --- measurements: Sheet: 22.2 x 24.4 cm (8 3/4 x 9 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Inscribed, on verso, in graphite, at lower margin, “fleurs inventées / par Jean Pillement / modèle de broderie des soieries de Lyon” translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Sotheby\'s, London, "Fine French 18th-Century Prints and Drawings," April 27, 1977, #94, illustrated, page 80.', 'opening_date': '1977-04-27T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Sotheby's, London, England date: April 27, 1977 footnotes: citations: Shepherd Gallery, New York, NY date: footnotes: citations: Mr. Noah L. Butkin [1918-1980] date: 1977-1980 footnotes: citations: Mrs. Muriel Butkin [1915-2008] date: 1980-2005 footnotes: citations: the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: March 4, 2019 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Sotheby's (Firm). Fine French 18th Century Prints and Drawings. 1977. page number: ill. Lot 94 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2019.67/2019.67_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2019.67/2019.67_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2019.67/2019.67_full.tif