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Philippe de Lasalle
Fragment of a Wall Panel, 'The Peacock'circa 1765

Not on view
Embroidered silk panel with a peacock in full tail display, surrounded by three smaller birds, flowering plants, and a garden trellis, worked in brown, gray, and gold threads on a cream ground
Artist or Maker
Philippe de Lasalle
Title
Fragment of a Wall Panel, 'The Peacock'
Place Made
France, Lyon
Date Made
circa 1765
Medium
Silk satin with silk and silk-chenille discontinuous supplementary weft patterning (brocade)
Dimensions
24 1/8 × 30 1/4 in. (61.28 × 76.84 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Frederick Kingston
Accession Number
M.59.11.1
Classification
Textiles
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography
  • Maeder, Edward et al.. An Elegant Art: Fashion & Fantasy in the Eighteenth Century. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1983.
  • Kahlenberg, Mary Hunt. Fabric and Fashion: Twenty Years of Costume Council Gifts. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1974.
  • Hopkins, Henry T., ed. Illustrated Handbook of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. West Germany: Bruder Hartmann, 1965.