This 100% silk scarf features a vibrant dot pattern adapted from a 19th-century French color manual in the collection of the Getty Research Institute.
- Material: 100% Silk - Dimensions: 22.5 inches x 57 inches - Dry clean only - Made in China - Item #: SCFDPB2
Jean-François Persoz's color-manual, Theoreticaland Practical Treatise forPrinting on Fabric, was embraced by French Impressionist artists as a revolutionary landmark in the history of color-theory and its practical artistic applications. Presented in the work isa dizzying tour-de-force of a master chemist's intimate knowledge of the creation of color.
Jean-François Persoz (French, 1805–1868) Traite theorique et practique del'impression des tissus (Theoreticaland practical treatise of printing onfabric).Paris and Leipzig, 1846, pl. 2 Chromolithograph Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2821-853. 2009 Collections Council gift.