AUBUSSON PASTORAL TAPESTRY, Louis XV AUBUSSON HUNTING TAPESTRY, Louis XIV GOBELINS MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY, BRUSSELS ALLEGORICAL TAPESTRY
AUBUSSON PASTORAL TAPESTRY, Louis XV AUBUSSON HUNTING TAPESTRY, Louis XIV GOBELINS MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY, BRUSSELS ALLEGORICAL TAPESTRY
A FINE AUBUSSON PASTORAL TAPESTRY of The Fountain of Love, from the series
La Noble Pastorale, after Frangois Boucher, three pairs of figures grouped around a large
stone fountain, including two girls untying a billet-doux from the neck of a dove,
9ft. lOin. high by llft. 4in. (ЗООст. by 345cm.) mid-19th Century.
Copied from the series designed for the Beauvais factory and first woven in 1755. The present example is woven in reverse—see Boccara, Les Belles Heures de la Tapisserie, no. 198 for an original weaving
See Ananoff, L ‘Opera Completa di Boucher, plates XXXI & XXXIX, the latter in the Washington National Gallery of Art, for the group of the two girls with the dove.
A BRUSSELS MYTHOLOGICAL HUNTING TAPESTRY of Meleager and Atalanta
attributed to Marcus de Vos, in the background a water garden, in a good four-sided florai
border incorporating hunting trophies on a snuff coloured ground, 11 ft. 4in. high by
8ft. 2in. wide (345cm. by 250cm.) late 17th Century ?3500-4500
Gobel— Tapestries of the Lowlands, no. 350 illustrates a similar tapestry in the same border by Marcus de Vos.
A Louis XV AUBUSSON HUNTING TAPESTRV, two youths on horseback ac-
companied by hounds followed by two others and a girl running after them, the four-sided
florai border in red and blue on a chestnut ground, 9ft. 2in. high by 9ft. 5in. zuide (280cm.
by 288cm.) mid-18th Century.
A BRUSSELS LANDSCAPE TAPESTRY, attributed to Franz Van den Hecke, in the
foreground a couple of staghounds chasing a hind and a heron rising in alarm, in a forest
landscape, with Corinthian side columns supporting a lintel with a central cartouche with
swags of fruit, 9ft. 4in. high by 12ft. wide (285cm. by 365cm.) circa 1630.
See Gobel, op. cit.} no. 177, for a tapestrv by Van den Hecke with a similar archi-tectural background.
A FINE FRANCO-FLEMISH VERDURE TAPESTRY of pristine colouring, the
foreground with clumps of wild flowers and a brace of geese, a fountain to the left and in
the background a stag and a hind, in a river landscape with distant buildings, 6ft. lOin.
high by llft. 4in. wide (210cm. by 345cm.) early 18th Century.
A Louis XIV GOBELINS MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY from Ovid’s Metamorphoses
of Acis and Galatea, attributed to Jan Jans, in a four-sided frame pattern border, the sides
with palm trunks entwined with brightly coloured flowers, the top and bottom borders
with scrolling acanthus and fruit, lOft. 8in. high by 9ft. 5in. wide (325cm. by 285cm.) circa.
This and the following three Metamorphoses tapestries appear to belong to an earlier series than the set of thirteen tapestries from the same source described in Fenaille, Etat General des Tapisseries de la manufacture des Gobelins, Vol. III, although there are many similarities. The attribution to Jan Jans is supported by two panels of Acis and Galatea and a Bacchus and Ariadne tapestry at Burghley with the arms of the 5th Earl of Exeter listed in the 1688 inventory as the work of Jans
A smaller version of Acis and Galatea but woven in reverse is among a set of six at Schloss Bayreuth. Another also in reverse but otherwise corresponding to the present example was in the Collection of Mrs. Leslie Urquhart.
A Louis XIV GOBELINS MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY from the same series of Pan
and Syrinx, attributed to Jan Jans, in a four-sided frame pattern border as before, lOft. 8in.
high by 6ft. 4in. wide (325cm. by 195cm.) circa 1700.
Another example of this composition i’s at Schloss Bayreuth and another was in the Collection of Mrs. Leslie Urquhart, both woven in reverse to the present tapestry.
A Louis XIV GOBELINS MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY from the same series of
Bacchus and Ariadne, attributed to Jan Jans, in a four-sided frame pattern border as
before, lOft. 8in. high by 7ft. 2in. wide (325cm. by 220cm.) circa 1700.
Another example of this tapestry is at Burghley (see footnote to lot 12). Others, in reverse, are at Schloss Bayreuth and formerly in the Collection of Mrs. Leslie Urquhart.
A Louis XIV GOBELINS MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY from the same series of
Venus and Adonis, attributed to Jan Jans, in a four-sided frame pattern border as before,
lOft. 8in. high by lOft. wide (325cm. by 305cm.) circa 1700.
LOUIS XIV GOBELINS TAPESTRY ENTRE-FENETRE depicting Мау, from the
series called Les Mois ou les Maisons Royales, after Charles Le Brun, with a distant view of
the Chateau de Saint-Germain, in the foreground the King and Queen on horseback
beyond a balustrade with a basket of flowers and an eagle, fianked by Ionic columns with
swags of flowers and florai side borders with interlaced L’s, woven with metai thread,
lOft. 6in. high by 8ft. 3in. wide (320cm. by 250cm.) circa 1680, some splits and repairs, top
border and bottom foreground rewoven.
Provenance: Collection Comte de Greffuhle
Literature: Fenaille—Etat General des Tapisseries de la Manufacture des Gobelins, Vol. II, p. 140. and plate facing p. 146 for a similar entre-fenetre.
A RARE BRUSSELS ALLEGORICAL TAPESTRY of the Theological and Cardinal Virtues, attributed to Martin Reymbouts, with a central figure of Faith in a temple, flanked from left to right by Justice, Prudence and Charity, Норе, Fortitude and Temperance, all on a dark blue ground surmounted by lunettes representing Night and Day and Time; the saffron field woven overall with ‘grotesques’ in an Elements border depicting Air, Earth and Water with allegorical figures at the corners, llft. 3in. high by 12ft. 9in. wide (345cm. by 390cm.) late 16th Century, with weaver’s mark on both side selvages.
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