Les monuments d'Égypte. Artist: After an illustration by Louis François Cassas (French, Azay-le-Ferron 1756-1827 Versailles). Culture: French, Jouy-en-Josas. Designer: Jean-Baptiste Huet I (French, Paris 1745-1811 Paris). Dimensions: L. 98 1/2 x W. 38 inches (250.2 x 96.5 cm). Manufactory: Oberkampf Manufactory (French, active 1760-1843). Date: ca. 1808.This type of monochromatic pictorial cotton, toile de Jouy, takes its name from the village near Versailles where the first printed textile factory in France was founded. Started by Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf (1738-1815), who had been brought up in the textile industry, the factory began work in 1760. Located in Jouy-en-Josas near the court, it attracted an affluent clientele that appreciated the quality of Oberkampf's fabrics.Printed multicolored patterns on cloth were achieved at first by use of carved wood blocks. By the 1770s, reproductions of finely drawn engravings of pictorial prints and floral and geometric patterns were ma

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Les monuments d'Égypte. Artist: After an illustration by Louis François Cassas (French, Azay-le-Ferron 1756-1827 Versailles). Culture: French, Jouy-en-Josas. Designer: Jean-Baptiste Huet I (French, Paris 1745-1811 Paris). Dimensions: L. 98 1/2 x W. 38 inches (250.2 x 96.5 cm). Manufactory: Oberkampf Manufactory (French, active 1760-1843). Date: ca. 1808.This type of monochromatic pictorial cotton, toile de Jouy, takes its name from the village near Versailles where the first printed textile factory in France was founded. Started by Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf (1738-1815), who had been brought up in the textile industry, the factory began work in 1760. Located in Jouy-en-Josas near the court, it attracted an affluent clientele that appreciated the quality of Oberkampf's fabrics.Printed multicolored patterns on cloth were achieved at first by use of carved wood blocks. By the 1770s, reproductions of finely drawn engravings of pictorial prints and floral and geometric patterns were ma

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