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Lot Essay
Cf: Svres, Revue de la Socit des Amis du Muse National de Cramique, No. 7, 1998, see article by Laurens D'Albis, Les dbuts du japonisme cramique en France de Bracquemond Chaplet, pp. 13-20
See also: Alain Gruber (ed.), L'art dcoratif en Europe, Paris, 1994, p. 255 (Tureen illustrated)
Jean-Paul Bouillon, Christine Shimizu, Philippe Thibaut, Art, industrie et japonisme, Le service 'Rousseau', Exhibition Catalogue, Muse d'Orsay, Paris, 1988, passim.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Japonisme. Japanese Influence on French Art 1854-1910, Cleveland, 1975, Exhibition Catalogue, pp. 157-158, Exh. Nos. 194-195
The 'Service Rousseau' is considered to be one of the earliest expressions of Japonisme in French decorative arts. Rousseau commissioned Bracquemond to engrave designs to be used as decoration on a Rococo revival dinner service of Rousseau's choice. The service was exhibited to great acclaim at the Paris Exhibitions of 1867, 1878 and 1889, at the London Exhibition of 1871 and the Vienna Exhibition of 1873. Such was the success of the service, the decoration of which was in part inspired by Hokusai's woodcuts 'discovered' by Bracquemond in 1856, that it was produced by Rousseau's successors into the first decades of the 20th century.
See also: Alain Gruber (ed.), L'art dcoratif en Europe, Paris, 1994, p. 255 (Tureen illustrated)
Jean-Paul Bouillon, Christine Shimizu, Philippe Thibaut, Art, industrie et japonisme, Le service 'Rousseau', Exhibition Catalogue, Muse d'Orsay, Paris, 1988, passim.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Japonisme. Japanese Influence on French Art 1854-1910, Cleveland, 1975, Exhibition Catalogue, pp. 157-158, Exh. Nos. 194-195
The 'Service Rousseau' is considered to be one of the earliest expressions of Japonisme in French decorative arts. Rousseau commissioned Bracquemond to engrave designs to be used as decoration on a Rococo revival dinner service of Rousseau's choice. The service was exhibited to great acclaim at the Paris Exhibitions of 1867, 1878 and 1889, at the London Exhibition of 1871 and the Vienna Exhibition of 1873. Such was the success of the service, the decoration of which was in part inspired by Hokusai's woodcuts 'discovered' by Bracquemond in 1856, that it was produced by Rousseau's successors into the first decades of the 20th century.