Resumen de Les "estampes habillées": acteurs, pratiques et publics en France aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles

Pascale Cugy, Georgina Letourmy Bordier, Vanessa Selbach

• "Dressed Prints": participants, practices and public in 17th and 18th century France.

  Hard to date and inaccurately identified, "dressed prints" are a complex and little-studied phenomenon. Produced both as individual acts of appropriation and by groups and institutions seeking to transform images printed on paper by the thousands into magnificent decorative objects, they were in some cases opulent and highly refined sources of wonder. This short article offers an overview of these practices and indicates possible directions for research, describing devotional and secular images and accessories decorated with textile fragments in this way, using mainly French examples from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.