Classic Art Pillows

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Landscape with the Pilgrim at Prayer by Canaletto in soft, durable yarn — a plush, textural piece of art for the couch, bed, or reading chair.

Details

• Jacquard-woven in soft, durable yarn
• Design woven on both front and back
• Insert included — ready to display out of the box
• Dimensions: 17" × 18"
• Origin: Made in USA
• Artwork: Landscape with the Pilgrim at Prayer by Canaletto

Interesting facts about the art

• This belongs to Canaletto's etched "Vedute," a series that mixes real topography with invented, poetic landscapes called capricci.
• Though famous for his crowded Venetian views, Canaletto also delighted in quiet rural fantasies like this one.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces The Three Musicians by Diego Velázquez in soft, durable yarn — a plush, textural piece of art for the couch, bed, or reading chair.

Details

• Jacquard-woven in soft, durable yarn
• Design woven on both front and back
• Insert included — ready to display out of the box
• Dimensions: 17" × 18"
• Origin: Made in USA
• Artwork: The Three Musicians by Diego Velázquez

Interesting facts about the art

• This is an early work from Velázquez's youth in Seville, a lively tavern scene of the kind known in Spain as a "bodegón."
• Painted before he became court painter to King Philip IV, it already shows his gift for realistic faces and everyday detail.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces A Turn in the Road by Alfred Sisley in soft, durable yarn — a plush, textural piece of art for the couch, bed, or reading chair.

Details

• Jacquard-woven in soft, durable yarn
• Design woven on both front and back
• Insert included — ready to display out of the box
• Dimensions: 17" × 18"
• Origin: Made in USA
• Artwork: A Turn in the Road by Alfred Sisley

Interesting facts about the art

• Sisley loved roads and paths that lead the eye into the distance, a favorite device throughout his landscapes.
• A founding Impressionist, he painted almost nothing but landscapes, chasing fleeting effects of weather and light.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Willow and Magpie in soft, durable yarn — a plush, textural piece of art for the couch, bed, or reading chair.

Details

• Jacquard-woven in soft, durable yarn
• Design woven on both front and back
• Insert included — ready to display out of the box
• Dimensions: 17" × 18"
• Origin: Made in USA
• Artwork: Willow and Magpie

Interesting facts about the art

• The magpie is known in Chinese tradition as the "bird of joy," its appearance believed to herald good news.
• Paired with the graceful willow, a symbol of spring and renewal, the magpie made this a hopeful, auspicious subject.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Portrait of a Gentleman Album Leaf in soft, durable yarn — a plush, textural piece of art for the couch, bed, or reading chair.

Details

• Jacquard-woven in soft, durable yarn
• Design woven on both front and back
• Insert included — ready to display out of the box
• Dimensions: 17" × 18"
• Origin: Made in USA
• Artwork: Portrait of a Gentleman Album Leaf

Interesting facts about the art

• An "album leaf" is a small, intimate painting mounted in a bound album, meant to be held and viewed up close rather than hung on a wall.
• Portraits of gentlemen scholars celebrated the cultivated ideal of the Chinese literatus, capturing not just a likeness but character and standing.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces The Astrologer and the Young Soldier by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo in soft, durable yarn — a plush, textural piece of art for the couch, bed, or reading chair.

Details

• Jacquard-woven in soft, durable yarn
• Design woven on both front and back
• Insert included — ready to display out of the box
• Dimensions: 17" × 18"
• Origin: Made in USA
• Artwork: The Astrologer and the Young Soldier by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Interesting facts about the art

• Astrologers, magi, and soldiers gathered among antique relics are favorite subjects of Tiepolo's fanciful etchings and drawings.
• Tiepolo was the leading Venetian painter of the 18th century and an inventive printmaker as well as a fresco painter.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Cleaning Combs by Kitagawa Utamaro in soft, durable yarn — a plush, textural piece of art for the couch, bed, or reading chair.

Details

• Jacquard-woven in soft, durable yarn
• Design woven on both front and back
• Insert included — ready to display out of the box
• Dimensions: 17" × 18"
• Origin: Made in USA
• Artwork: Cleaning Combs by Kitagawa Utamaro

Interesting facts about the art

• Utamaro was the great master of bijin-ga, Japanese "pictures of beautiful women," and loved intimate glimpses of women at their daily toilette.
• Scenes of grooming — arranging hair, cleaning combs, applying makeup — let him celebrate the quiet elegance of everyday feminine life.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Bordighera by Claude Monet in soft, durable yarn — a plush, textural piece of art for the couch, bed, or reading chair.

Details

• Jacquard-woven in soft, durable yarn
• Design woven on both front and back
• Insert included — ready to display out of the box
• Dimensions: 17" × 18"
• Origin: Made in USA
• Artwork: Bordighera (1884) by Claude Monet

Interesting facts about the art

• Monet painted Bordighera on the Italian Riviera in 1884, dazzled by the intense Mediterranean light and lush subtropical gardens.
• He found the brilliant color and exotic palms a real challenge, so unlike the softer light of northern France.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Portrait of Mme Lisle and Mme Loubens by Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas in soft, durable yarn — a plush, textural piece of art for the couch, bed, or reading chair.

Details

• Jacquard-woven in soft, durable yarn
• Design woven on both front and back
• Insert included — ready to display out of the box
• Dimensions: 17" × 18"
• Origin: Made in USA
• Artwork: Portrait of Mme Lisle and Mme Loubens by Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

Interesting facts about the art

• This unfinished double portrait shows two women friends of the Degas family, left in a deliberately sketch-like state.
• Degas often painted friends and relatives, using portraiture to experiment with informal, asymmetrical compositions.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Massacre of the Innocents by Titian in soft, durable yarn — a plush, textural piece of art for the couch, bed, or reading chair.

Details

• Jacquard-woven in soft, durable yarn
• Design woven on both front and back
• Insert included — ready to display out of the box
• Dimensions: 17" × 18"
• Origin: Made in USA
• Artwork: Massacre of the Innocents by Titian

Interesting facts about the art

• The Massacre of the Innocents comes from the Gospel of Matthew, in which King Herod orders the killing of Bethlehem's young children.
• The violent, crowded subject was a favorite test for Old Master painters, who used it to stage swirling figures and raw emotion.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Listening to the Qin in soft, durable yarn — a plush, textural piece of art for the couch, bed, or reading chair.

Details

• Jacquard-woven in soft, durable yarn
• Design woven on both front and back
• Insert included — ready to display out of the box
• Dimensions: 17" × 18"
• Origin: Made in USA
• Artwork: Listening to the Qin

Interesting facts about the art

• The qin, or guqin, is an ancient seven-stringed zither cherished by Chinese scholars for over two thousand years as the most refined of instruments and one of the "four arts" of the cultivated gentleman.
• Scenes of listening to the qin celebrate the ideal of the "zhiyin" — the true friend who understands one's heart through the music.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Notre Dame by Paul Signac in soft, durable yarn — a plush, textural piece of art for the couch, bed, or reading chair.

Details

• Jacquard-woven in soft, durable yarn
• Design woven on both front and back
• Insert included — ready to display out of the box
• Dimensions: 17" × 18"
• Origin: Made in USA
• Artwork: Notre Dame by Paul Signac

Interesting facts about the art

• Signac painted many French towns and landmarks, often traveling by boat along rivers and coasts to find his subjects.
• He built his scenes from small, separate strokes of pure color, a Neo-Impressionist method he did much to promote in his writings.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces The Abduction of Europa by Rembrandt van Rijn in soft, durable yarn — a plush, textural piece of art for the couch, bed, or reading chair.

Details

• Jacquard-woven in soft, durable yarn
• Design woven on both front and back
• Insert included — ready to display out of the box
• Dimensions: 17" × 18"
• Origin: Made in USA
• Artwork: The Abduction of Europa (1632) by Rembrandt van Rijn

Interesting facts about the art

• Painted in 1632, it illustrates the Greek myth of Zeus, disguised as a white bull, carrying the princess Europa off across the sea.
• One of Rembrandt's rare mythological landscapes, it now hangs in the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces The Blue Passion Flower by P. J. Redouté in soft, durable yarn — a plush, textural piece of art for the couch, bed, or reading chair.

Details

• Jacquard-woven in soft, durable yarn
• Design woven on both front and back
• Insert included — ready to display out of the box
• Dimensions: 17" × 18"
• Origin: Made in USA
• Artwork: The Blue Passion Flower by P. J. Redouté

Interesting facts about the art

• The blue passion flower (Passiflora caerulea) owes its name to early missionaries, who read the parts of its intricate bloom as symbols of Christ's Passion.
• A South American climber, it was among the exotic plants European gardeners prized and Redouté recorded with scientific care.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces A Sunday on La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat in soft, durable yarn — a plush, textural piece of art for the couch, bed, or reading chair.

Details

• Jacquard-woven in soft, durable yarn
• Design woven on both front and back
• Insert included — ready to display out of the box
• Dimensions: 17" × 18"
• Origin: Made in USA
• Artwork: A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884–86) by Georges Seurat

Interesting facts about the art

• A landmark of Pointillism: Seurat built the entire scene from countless tiny dots of color that blend in the viewer's eye, working on it for about two years.
• The Art Institute of Chicago centerpiece inspired Stephen Sondheim's musical Sunday in the Park with George.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Tulip by William Morris in soft, durable yarn — a plush, textural piece of art for the couch, bed, or reading chair.

Details

• Jacquard-woven in soft, durable yarn
• Design woven on both front and back
• Insert included — ready to display out of the box
• Dimensions: 17" × 18"
• Origin: Made in USA
• Artwork: Tulip by William Morris

Interesting facts about the art

• A printed textile pattern of curving tulips and foliage, typical of Morris's mirrored floral repeats.
• Morris helped revive traditional hand block-printing and natural dyes at a time when industrial synthetic dyes were taking over.