Rare document of a canvas printed in tontisse,... Lot 18

Rare document of a canvas printed in tontisse, circa 1720, strong hemp canvas printed in orange tontisse; decoration in reserve of stylized poppies, garlands of flowers and scrolled medallions, 77 x 36 cm. About flocked canvases Clouzot notes in his Histoire du papier peint that in Paris "sieur Aubert set up a factory of velvety canvases, very different from tontisses and very superior to the papers of England which must be glued on canvas and still cause the expenses of the stretchers". La Feuille nécessaire 1759 p. 250; in Histoire du papier peint en France, C. Moreau, Paris, 1935 P. 32.