Tulipa Gesneriana; and Primevere Auricule

Madame Peigné was a pupil of Jean-Siméon Chardin and Van Spaendonck, before she became an important textile designer in the late 18th century. Her fruit and flower drawings, in which she specialised, were intended as designs for the famous Oberkampf textile factory, established near Versailles in 1760 (see E. Benezit, Dictionnaire des peintres et sculpteurs dessinateurs et graveurs, Paris, 1999, X, p. 691).