Joseph Marie Jacquard
Original title
Michel-Marie Carquillat (weaver), for Didier, Petit et Cie Michel-Marie Carquillat
- Institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
- Accession
- 31.124
- Credit
- Bequest of William G. Jenkins, 1931
- Rights
Public domain: woven in 1839; the weaver, Michel-Marie Carquillat, died in 1884. The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 through its Open Access programme.
- Description
- A portrait woven in silk in tones of black and grey, so fine that it looks like an engraving. Joseph Marie Jacquard, an old man in a long coat, sits in an armchair at his workbench, holding a pair of dividers over a sheet of punched cards; a model of his loom mechanism stands at the left, tools line the shelves behind him, and a curtained window looks out on a church tower. Beneath the picture are the words À la mémoire de J. M. Jacquard.
- Image
- 1361 × 1600
source file retrieved 2026-10-11 - Catalogue no.
- G-009101
coldlibrary.com/g/009101 - Credit line
- Michel-Marie Carquillat (weaver), for Didier, Petit et Cie, Joseph Marie Jacquard, 1839. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain (CC0). Via Cold Library: https://coldlibrary.com/g/009101
Woven in Lyon in 1839 after a painting by Claude Bonnefond; the silk names its weaver, Michel-Marie Carquillat, and the Met catalogues it under the firm that made it, Didier, Petit et Cie. A Jacquard loom reads its pattern from a chain of punched cards, and this portrait is said to have needed some 24,000 of them. Jacquard sits among the means of his own likeness: punched cards under his hand and a model of his loom on the table.
