Empress Eugénie
date: label: Date
content: 1850–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Black and white jacquard woven portrait of Empress Eugénie of France (1826-1920). Lower half of the portrait is ornamented with sprays of roses, an escutcheon and a ribbon that reads "Eugénie Imperatrice." At the lower left and right are the woven signatures "Carquillat Tex." and "Bruyas del." Woven by Michel-Marie Carquillat (d. 1884) after a portrait by Marc-Laurent Bruyas (1821-1896).
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Anonymous Donor
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: a-t-774
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Object Name
content: Portrait
label: Type
content: Portrait
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk Technique: predominantly warp-faced plain weave (white) with a continuous supplementary weft (black), variously bound on the front, which on the back outside the picture is bound as plain weave
label: Dimensions
content: Warp x Weft: 26 x 21.5 cm (10 1/4 x 8 7/16 in.)