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Textile Pictures Religious
Certainly from the fifteenth century embroidered pictures were produced. Many were embroidered with a vast range of stitches in order to reproduce painterly effects in needlework on canvas. Some were designed specifically by artists, others adapted from prints and engravings. Biblical imagery was popular and increasingly these works were produced by women in domestic settings rather than in professional workshops.
The Madonna with the Infant Jesus
Price on application
A Devotional Silk Embroidered Picture
Italy, After 1670
After Giampetrino (active 1495 – 1549)
1ft 5.5in width x 1ft 10in height
0.44m x 0.56m
(framed)
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The Infant Moses and the Daughter of Pharaoh
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Louis XIV Embroidered Picture
France, circa 1700
2ft 2in width x 1ft 10in height
0.66m x 0.56m
(mounted on board)
