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2. French standard sizes for oil paintings - Wikipedia

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   Harvest near Auvers (1890), a size 30 canvas, by Vincent van Gogh. French standard sizes for oil paintings refers to a series of different sized canvases for use by artists. The sizes were fixed in the 19th century. Most artists [weasel words] —not only French—used this standard, as it was supported by the main suppliers of artist materials ...

3. Made in France - Wikipedia

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   The traditional ‘Made in France’ label is an incontestable draw for customers – the Pro France Ifop survey [3] (September 2018) reported that two thirds of French people ‘often’ or ‘systematically’ take the product’s origin into account when they buy a product or service, and that three quarters of French people would be ...

4. Lining of paintings - Wikipedia

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   Traditional linen fabrics and synthetic polyester are the most dominant fabrics used for lining; cotton is also sometimes used. Although experiments with synthetic fabrics have been carried out since the 1960s, linen cloths are still frequently used for lining because they maintain the aesthetics of traditional painting. [3]

5. Toile - Wikipedia

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   The French "Toile de Jouy" simply means "cloth from Jouy" in English and describes a type of fabric printing. [4] [5] "Toile de Jouy", sometimes abbreviated to simply "toile", is a type of decorating pattern consisting of a white or off-white background on which is a repeated pattern depicting a fairly complex scene, generally of a pastoral theme such as a couple having a picnic by a lake or ...

6. Frette - Wikipedia

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   Jean Baptiste Ennemonde (Edmond) Chavasse Frette was born on 12 June 1838, in Grenoble, France, to Jean Claude Chavasse Frette, a fabric dyer, merchant, and manufacturer of socks and knitted shirts, and Marie Maréchal. After her husband died in 1840, Marie took up the activity of millinery to support her children.

7. 19th-century French art - Wikipedia

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   19th-century French art was made in France or by French citizens during the following political regimes: Napoleon's Consulate (1799–1804) and Empire (1804–14), the Restoration (1814–30), the July Monarchy (1830–48), the Second Republic (1848–52), the Second Empire (1852–71), and the first decades of the Third Republic (1871–1940).