The celebrated textbook, L’Art du Brodeur (1770), reveals that its author, the professional Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin (1721-1786), took both the design of the decoration and the method of its embroidery very seriously. He wrote that ‘La conception est l’esprit de la broderie’, or that the concept of the decoration is essential for the finished embroidery, which should work together in harmony. In this era embroidery was a way of showing off. The embroidery on this boy’s waistcoat is on the surface of the fabric and is called tambour work.
Title
Damesjak
Artist
Dating
1750 - 1800
Material and technique
Object number
7591
Object type
Acquisition
bruikleen 1935
Dimensions
hoogte 56 cm
bovenwijdte 34 cm
hoogte 54 cm
breedte 31 cm
diepte 1 cm
Documentation
- De costuumverzameling in het Centraal Museum 1750-1930 : gids en catalogus (Utrecht, 1947), cat. nr. 6, afb. 3
Exhibitions
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