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Furnishing or Garment Fabric
1475-1525
Unknown
Silk, cut voided velvet, shot and brocaded with gilt yarn
American painter John Singer Sargent used this Italian voided velvet as inspiration for the background in his portrait of Mrs. Gardner in the Gothic Room on this floor. In his rendering of the textile he enlarged the scale of its pattern some two or three times.
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