About the Artwork
Cope
between 1730 and 1740
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French
French
Silk and metallic thread on silk satin
Overall: 113 1/2 × 54 1/4 inches (288.3 × 137.8 cm)
Textiles
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase with funds donated to the Archdiocese of Detroit in memory of His Eminence John Cardinal Dearden, Archbishop of Detroit, 1958-1980, and the European Sculptre and Decorative Arts Fund
1989.6
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Provenance
(Antichita Santoro, Florence, Italy)
European art market. (Galerie Ruf, Rastatt, Germany)
1989-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Santoro, J. L. Prospettiva e Naturalismo Nell'Arte Tessile tra Sei e Settecento, Florence: Antichita Santoro, 1988, no. 20.
"Selected recent acquisitions," Bulletin of the DIA 64, no. 4. 1989, p. 57.
Barnet, P. Clothed in Majesty: European Ecclesiastical Textiles from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat. 1991, no. 29, p. 44.
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French, Cope, between 1730 and 1740, silk and metallic thread on silk satin. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds donated to the Archdiocese of Detroit in memory of His Eminence John Cardinal Dearden, Archbishop of Detroit, 1958-1980, and the European Sculptre and Decorative Arts Fund, 1989.6.
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