History
Flowering Branches designed by Philippe de Lasalle (France, 1723-1805)
Below is an extract from Wikipedia about the artist:
"Philippe de la Salle was the son of a finance administration official. Orphaned at one year old, he arrived in Lyon at the age of 14 with one of his uncles. He began an apprenticeship with the painter Daniel Sarrabat , cited in 1751 among the Lyonnais painters capable of training silk designers (artistic education was often conceived in Lyon with a utilitarian perspective ). After a few years he left to complete his training in various Parisian workshops: first of all with two painters from the Academy, François Boucher and Jean-Jacques Bachelier, painter of flowers, then at the Manufacture des Gobelins and the Savonnerie .
He returned to Lyon in 1744 and increased his technical knowledge, necessary for silk designers, especially card layout, a job that consisted of reproducing the design on a grid for execution on the loom. He became friends with the manufacturer Charryé, whose daughter he married in 1748. He moved to rue Sainte-Catherine and was next to another great designer and inventor: Jean Revel . In 1760, he became a drawing teacher for the students of the “  Grande Fabrique  ” .
Designer, but also manufacturer and trader in silk, he is interested in everything that could help overcome the crisis in the silk sector. Thus, in order to offer products to a less fortunate clientele, he asked the Paris Trade Council for authorization to manufacture fabrics with gold thread and not gold, to reduce their cost price. This production was prohibited to fight against counterfeits and reassure customers, but La Salle proposed to allow it by controlling the manufacturers and by affixing a mark to guarantee that a garment was made of gold thread or golden thread. This is denied him.
Renovator of the weaving of brocaded silks, he gave the Lyon factory its prestige. Technician of genius, he brought certain ingenious improvements to the loom (he perfected, in particular, the loom with a large draw), when his artistic training allowed him to master the layout well: his drawings then became of a variety and of extraordinary aesthetic success (his art tended towards the realistic expression of nature). He was the first to conceive the idea of ​​fabrics for furniture, a characteristic of fabrics from the Louis XVI period.
The Lyon style spread its notoriety and La Salle quickly became the supplier of the royal family; his notoriety went beyond the borders of France and the courts of Europe gave him important orders. He furnished Louis XVI's bedroom in Saint-Cloud and made the silk for the sovereigns' apartment in Fontainebleau and the hangings for Marie-Antoinette's apartments, he produced portraits for Catherine II of Russia as well as a hanging of the ' Annexation of Crimea by Russia in 1783 . He became friends with many personalities from enlightened circles, notably Trudaine de Montigny, Turgot, Voltaire.
Covered with honors and ennobled, he was a pensioner of the king with the cord of the royal order of Saint-Michel. His career did not evolve after the Revolution because of the economic recession and the collapse of the Factory : he died in Lyon in 1804".
 
The Print
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