Style of Jean Baptiste Pillement
Length of Woven Silk
1735-45
Silk, gilt-and-silvered-metal-strip-
wrapped silk and silvered-metal strips, satin weave with brocading wefts and self-patterning plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and ground wefts
150.5 × 54.7 cm (59.3 × 21.5 in)
SEE IT IN PERSON
Not currently on view
In the collection of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago · as of July 2026
Discussion
FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG
In the 1730s a French designer named Jean Revel invented a technique for creating color shading in woven textile designs. This allowed for an increased appearance of volume in the depicted objects, such as the flowers, fruits, and leaves in this example.
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