Four Borders

Belgium

textilelace - bobbin

Date

1865/85

Medium

Cotton, bobbin straight lace of a type known as "Valenciennes" with a square Valenciennes mesh ground

Dimensions

a: 6.5 × 654.8 cm (2 5/8 × 257 3/4 in.); b: 6.5 × 62.1 cm (2 5/8 × 24 1/2 in.); c: 6.4 × 50.8 cm (2 1/2 × 20 in.); d: 6.8 × 51.7 cm (2 5/8 × 20 3/8 in.); Repeat: W.: 6.9 cm (2 3/4 in.)

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Location

Chicago, IL

Credit

Gift of Yvonne L. D. Pryor in memory of her mother, Alma Peniston Le Duc

Also notable

Works in the same vein

In Belgium

Louis Raemaekers Dutch, 1869-1956

Still Life with Fish and Shells

James Ensor (Belgian, 1860–1949)

"De Panne, Belgium, August 7, 1992," from Beach Portraits

Rineke Dijkstra Dutch, born 1959