{"product_id":"madame-revolutionary-tea-towel","title":"Madame Revolutionary Tea Towel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe white muslin bonnet with its lavender ribbon, the dark dress, the white fichu pinned at the throat with a single gilt button, the auburn curls falling loose against a near-black ground: this is a young Frenchwoman of the 1790s, painted in the direct, composed manner that replaced aristocratic hauteur as the mode of bourgeois self-presentation after 1789. She is a citizen of the Republic. Her dress says so clearly.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Revolutionary decade produced an enormous quantity of portraiture at every level of French society. The collapse of the Académie Royale, the dispersal of court patronage, and the urgent need of the new bourgeois class to document itself created a market for portraits that painters of every ability supplied. These faces are the visual record of a generation that lived through one of the most consequential decades in European history and dressed, deliberately, to show which side they were on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePrinted in full color on quality cotton at 27.6″ × 19.7″. The portrait reproduces across the full face of the towel with the dark ground extending to the edges and the face occupying the center. On a hook or over a rail it reads as a portrait in the room, which is exactly what it is. Part of La Révolution.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Contrado","offers":[{"title":"Cotton-Linen - 95% cotton 5% linen","offer_id":43132380020803,"sku":"2966713","price":59.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Panama Cotton - 100% Cotton","offer_id":43132380053571,"sku":"2966713","price":65.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/5188\/0515\/files\/2966713_0_3d.jpg?v=1775849092","url":"https:\/\/www.vintagevoyagersfrance.com\/products\/madame-revolutionary-tea-towel","provider":"Vintage Voyagers France","version":"1.0","type":"link"}