Stories Collected While Living in France
It looks like a painting that could be used in upholstery, like on a head board or something.
Oil cloth for ? I’m not sure.
It looks like a floor cloth.
it’s a cartoon. Which is a mock up illustration for a rug or tapestry.
Hi Cory,
Its a cartoon for a Aubusson tapestry, hand painted and followed by the weavers.
Maybe it is a roll of handpainted wallpaper.
Cover for a fireplace screen?
A tablecloth?
It is a poster that French teenagers use to decorate their boudoir. No “New Kids on the Block” posters for these kids! Just hand-painted beautiful tableaux to please the senses.
I’d guess an oil cloth floor covering
My first guess was oil cloth floor mat. I have one in my studio, the I made years ago. The hold up so well! Of course I am not the first here to say so.
i recently stripped a book cover and it looked like that. it really is beautiful, corey.. are you going to list it on your brocante?
I know! I know! It is a fragment from some hand painted wallpaper. This could have been a cartoon, designed for production.
At first I thought wallpaper but now I’m also thinking oilcloth floor cloth….sure is pretty whatever it is!
Since a lot of people guessed the same serious guess that I agree with(floor cloth) will go for a silly i.d. An early French slip and slide, used by the children of nobility at Versailles.
It’s the drawing for a needlepoint…
As it has most of the Spring flowers depicted could it be used to cover tables for Spring festivals …..?
they used it to draw the canvas from the paper “pattern”
My guess is a window shade.
Hw about a placemat? I actually think it’s an oilcloth floor mat, but that’s already been guessed, so I’ll go a different direction.
Floor cloth would be my guess!
Painted canvas floor cloth/rug..
It is a hand painted pattern/template for an aubusson tapestry.
Most likely for a headboard or sofa back by the shape.
It sounds like the smart guessers on here already have it covered..I think the cartoon for an aubusson rug is correct..they were painted in oil on canvas or gouache on paper and used to match-dye the wools and silks for the weavers who copied it. They were done in the 17th and 18th centuries,and this one seems to have survived amazingly well.
the pattern for the aubusson tapestry for hte back of a canape or sofa
Could it be a segment of original wallpaper?
I don’t know but I like it. Reminds me of a tapestry.
Looks like it might be a floor cloth.
Ooops !
Just noticed someone already said that.
it looks like a canvas taken off the frame and rolled.
Whatever it is, I wish I had found it. Love the colors!!!
A gravestone covet
I concur with previous guesses. May be a design template for a rug, tapestry, fabric, or wallpaper. It’s lovely!
backdrop in a photography studio?
It looks like a banner hung in a shop.
A piece of oil cloth for decorating
A lovely tapestry to apply to a valence or lambrequin?
I”m sure one of these answers previously given is correct. So, using my wildest imagination, I believe it to be the pattern for the china chosen by Marie Antoinette! (You must admit, it would make a lovely china pattern.) However, as she lost favor with the people of France and headed to the guillotine, this pattern was then painted on the guillotine blade. She lost her head to a bouquet of flowers 😉
Back drop for a theater production.
It’s a cartoon for a tapestry. And it is beautiful.
i think it is hand painted for weavers to follow when making an Aubusson rug/tapestry. Is that correct? I will wait with baited breath. xxpeggybraswelldesign.com
I think it is used for May Day festivals. You place your flowers displayed in vases on the oil cloth and it becomes a contest who has the best flower arrangement.
Yes I agree from the shape of the pattern it is designed to fit a settee. Perfect French colors!
I am guessing wallpaper, as well. It is beautiful in design and color!
It looks like a wall panel that you frame with molding and hang as a panel. What ever it is, it sure is beautiful. I would put it one top of a table and put glass over it to protect it.
I’m sure somebody already got this…but it’s an aubusson cartoon! Vanna
Hi
It looks like a pattern for a cushion tapestry!
That is easy: May flowers ready to be sent down to earth by the gods!
I think Vanna has the correct answer..Abusson cartoon, probably for a chair cusion.
guess everyone thinks it’s oil cloth. i’m not writing,because i have a brilliant idea. no, i pretty much also believe it to be the same thing,an oil cloth. yes, it pretty much looks like mine. those creases and the back side of the cloth as it is being rolled up. it is a beauty. very colorful. BESTEST,Denise
It looks to me to be a ‘marouflage’ painting taken from a wall or other support where it had been previously glued or tacked down as décor.
A beautiful explosion of flowers – I’m late to the party, but wouldn’t have guessed the Aubusson cartoon, which sounds completely right to me.
Hope real life flowers are also blooming there now. We are in the first flush of autumn rains here, with bulbs poking new green shoots through the sand, so almost like spring!
This is an antique needlepoint pattern. So beautiful!
When I was at the Paris Marche six Puces
I saw fragments of mats like these offered for
sale. I was told they were patterns for woven
rugs hand-painted for the designers to copy.
Old, old. And so gorgeously beautiful. I bought
one but Hmmmm – Where is it?
Hello! I was going to say it looks like an old advertisement poster for something fabulous, perfume maybe?
I think it is applied to a screen to place in front of a fireplace to protect people from the embers…
Wall paper to fit inside the panels framed by molding. It wouldn’t cover the whole wall. Whatever it is its lovely
I template for an Aubasson rug. Or a prop for theater?
Now that I read through the other postings, I see that I was neither first…by a long shot…nor original!
So, here is another offering, it could be an insert of a dressing screen for a boudoir so that after an afternoon of indiscreet meetings, a lady could dress in privacy, if desired. 😉
I think it is your hand. I am not sure what you are holding, but it reminds me of wallpaper I have seen in old hotels out in the French countryside.
I am definately not the first to reply. I get these messages so late, but my guess it is a pattern for future weavings or cross stitch. It is lovely and I would certainly be using it – perhaps picture framed in a screen or maybe a door or maybe just for a wall. My question is, even if it is a pattern, is it original and is it signed or is it a print?
I’m certainly not the first person to respond. I get these message too late but my guess would be it’s a pattern for a weaving or needle stitching. It is beautiful. Will you frame it for a picture, a screen, or in a door frame, or? Another question is; is it signed, an original or a print?
It appears to be muslin like material where upon it has been painted for use in the theater .
It appears to be that old fabric/paper medium that has been made into a lovely piece of art. My question is – Is there enough ‘fabric’ to it that I could repurpose it into something handmade in my sewing room!!?
It looks like hand painted image onto a linen/muslin sheet, perhaps a welcome mat for a restaurant/theater or a wall hanging…cyndi
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