canvases and tablecloths

note: I will soon update this page with the connection to the canavas of “Isabella d’Este”

Tablecloth and the transition to canvas.

Tablecloth in historic paintings.

Claudio Seccaroni; 2018
244 canvases with a pattern!

Titian The Supper at Emmaus (1530)

Titian painted a tablecloth in this painting

10 years later he painted The Vendramin Family (1540-45) on a canvas with a pattern

Titian, active about 1506; died 1576 The Vendramin Family, venerating a Relic of the True Cross about 1540-45 Oil on canvas, 206.1 x 288.5 cm Bought with a special grant and contributions from Samuel Courtauld, Sir Joseph Duveen, The Art Fund and the Phillips Fund, 1929. NG4452 https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/NG4452

Could it be that he first painted the tablecloth on a plain weave canvas and after 10 years he painted on that tablecloth…..

note: there is a great similarity between these three patterns; after analysing them it shows that none of these are identical which means that they all had a different threading in the loom

___

Burgundian The Last Supper (1515)

Burgundian, 1515. “The Last Supper”. Middle panel of the Eucharist triptych. Oil on panel. Autun, Musée Rolin.

have a look at the pattern of the tablecloth (amplified in the circle)

a tablecloth and a canvas

on the left a tablecloth, owned by Jan Bustin and found on a flee market, on the right a canvas in a painting by Francisco Correia, 1600, a portugues painter (source Thesis by Rita Maltieira)
The patterns look very similar but after analysing I found that there are more ‘lines’ in the pattern of the canvas.

from left to right: a tablecloth, owned by Jan Bustin, a canvas of a painting by Francisco Correia c 1600,(source Rita Maltieira, thesis) and a painted tablecloth “La Cene” tryptique d’Autun, 1515 have a very similar pattern.
…find the differences
note: in the 3th draft I assumed the same numbers as in the two other drafts, but that is of course hypothetic…

…they all have a very similar pattern: a tablecloth, owned by Jan Bustin, a canvas of a painting by Francisco Correia c 1600,(source Rita Maltieira, thesis) and a painted tablecloth “La Cene” tryptique d’Autun, 1515, photograph courtesy of https://www.facebook.com/pages/Musée-Rolin/320952957931371

This story started with finding the thesis ‘A tela na pintura Portuguesa. Materiais e técnicas,do século XV ao século XIX’ by Rita Maltieira.

It was here where I found for the first time that a Portuguese painter had painted on a canvas with a pattern.

***a publication about the painting on the patterned canvas***

Francisco Correia painted “Alegoria à Imaculada Conceição” (1600) on a canvas with a pattern.
The painting is located in the ‘Mosteiro de S. Miguel de Refojos de Basto

After having published this on my Facebook page, I received photographs from a tablecloth with a very similar pattern, that is owned by Jan Bustin, he bought it on a Belgium flee market.

Patricia Hilts has done an amazing work on translating the earliest weaving manual , ‘Weber Kunst und Bild Buch’ by Marx Ziegler (1674)

and has published this in Ars Textrina, volume thirteen, december 1990

***reproduction of the two earliest books on weaving by Patricia Hilts***

Here I found a graphic of a pattern similar to both the 17th century canvas as well as the tablecloth, which led me to the Autun triptych.