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| Furnishing Fabric French, 1785 The Victoria & Albert Museum |
Grape harvests were popular among the pastoral scenes which were printed on cotton toile textiles in the late Eighteenth Century. This example in red on white was printed at the factory established in 1760 by Christopher-Philippe Oberkampf (1738-1815) at Jouy-en-Josas--a village located between Paris and Versailles, the main residences of the French court at the time.
These products were printed with copper plates and their crisp patterns caught the attention of the French elite. Oberkampf’s firm was so highly regarded that Louis XV named it a Royal Manufacture.
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