Frédéric Etienne Joseph Feldtrappe
Frédéric Etienne Joseph Feldtrappe is represented in this archive by a single sheet, a cotton fabric roller-printed with the abolitionist image known as Traite des Nègres (The Slave Trade). The medium places the piece within the printed textile tradition, where a design is transferred to cloth by roller rather than by hand, and its subject belongs to the visual culture of the slavery debate. Beyond that one entry, the collection holds no further examples of his output, so the surviving trace of the artist here is narrow in scope and technique. The Met records no life dates or nationality for Feldtrappe, leaving the period of the sheet, including any later impressions, undetermined.
1 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)
