SAPFM Museum Furniture Collection

Back panel for a bed (Lit à la duchesse en impériale)

Beauvais

Back panel for a bed (Lit à la duchesse en impériale), Beauvais, ca. 1780–90, Silk and wool (20-25 warps per inch, 8-11 per…

Maker: Beauvais
Date: ca. 1780–90
Medium: Silk and wool (20-25 warps per inch, 8-11 per centimeter)
Dimensions: 8 ft. 3 1/2 in. × 72 in. (252.7 × 182.9 cm)
Form: Bed
Culture: French, Beauvais
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Accession: 23.235b
Credit line: Gift of Kingdon Gould, in memory of his mother, Edith Kingdon Gould, 1923

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