Polonaise Rug

first half 17th century

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    silk pile with gold and silver brocade on cotton warp and cotton and silk weft

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 216 x 141 cm (85 1/16 x 55 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.474

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Baron Rothschild Collection, Paris (possibly Alphonse de Rothschild [1827-1905]). Peter A. B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, by 1910; inheritance from Estate of Peter A. B. Widener, by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; gift 1942 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1910

  • Loan Exhibition of Early Oriental Rugs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1910-1911, 49, no. 40, repro. (cat. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner).

Bibliography

1910

  • Loan Exhibition of Early Oriental Rugs. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1910-1911: 49, no. 40, repro. (cat. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner).

1935

  • Inventory of the Objects d'Art at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, The Estate of the Late P.A.B. Widener. Philadelphia, 1935: 129.

1968

  • Spuhler, Friedrich-Karl, "Seidene Repräsentationsteppiche der mittleren bis späten Safawidenzeit. Die sog. Polenteppiche." Ph.D. diss., Free University of Berlin, 1968: 200, no. 105.

1997

  • Torchia, Robert Wilson. "Widener's Gift." Hali 92 (May 1997): 88-97, 120, fig. 2.

1998

  • Bower, Virginia, Josephine Hadley Knapp, Stephen Little, and Robert Wilson Torchia. Decorative Arts, Part II: Far Eastern Ceramics and Paintings; Persian and Indian Rugs and Carpets. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1998: 299-301, color repro.

Wikidata ID

Q62268464

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