2-735-913 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

New Suite of Portfolios of Flowers Ideal to Use for Designing and Painting: Floral Fantasies, c. 1796. As a painter and decorative artist,Jean Baptiste Pillement ornamented a broad range of objects including ceramics, textiles, and other household objects. He employed several printmakers to copy his designs that were then disseminated throughout Europe. The best of the printmakers, Anne Allen, coloured the etched plate à la poupée. Instead of making a plate for each colour, a single plate is selectively inked in different colours using stumps of rags, known as dolls ( poupée in French), so that the complete design is printed at one time.