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Place of Origin: French
Late 17th Century French Aubusson Tapestry
Located in New York, NY
A French Aubusson Biblical tapestry from the late 17th century, depicting King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba seated on a throne at center, flanked on either side by attendants, to t...
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Late 17th Century Aubusson Antique French Tapestries
Materials
Wool
Dispersions by Grace Atkinson
Located in London, GB
These unique pieces are entirely handcrafted using a traditional technique developed in the 14th century by the Hutsuls; highlanders who have inhabited the Carpathian mountains of Uk...
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2010s French Tapestries
Materials
Wool
Antique Little French Embroidery
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Beautiful late 19th century French embroidery with silk, originally, seat cover element.
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Late 19th Century Aubusson Antique French Tapestries
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Silk
Patchwork Army Cloth from Military Uniform/ Wartime Quilts, France, 1866
Located in London, GB
A patchwork panel made from scraps of military uniform dated 1866, commemorating a small military unit in the middle of France. This panel relates to...
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18th Century Antique French Tapestries
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Fabric
$1,624 Sale Price
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Pretty vintage French Aubusson style Jacquard Tapestry
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
"Discover the timeless elegance of this exquisite vintage French tapestry featuring a galant scene.
Elevate your space with the charm of this beautifully crafted and woven tapestry,...
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Mid-20th Century Aubusson French Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Cotton, Acrylic
Nice vintage French Aubusson Style Panel Jacquard Tapestry
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
"Exquisite French panel tapestry, from the late 20th century, featuring a beautiful design and nice colours, woven at renowned workshops in jacquard looms in France by wool acrylic ...
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Late 20th Century Aubusson French Tapestries
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Wool, Cotton, Acrylic
Vintage French Aubusson Tapestry Rug Art Nouveau Bold 9x9 Square 256cm x 285cm
Located in New York, NY
Vintage French Aubusson Tapestry Rug Art Nouveau Bold Square 9x9
8'5" x 9'4"
256cm x 285cm
"A rare, magnificent vintage French Aubusson tapestry with unique Art Nouveau design, i...
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1940s Vintage French Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Silk
Alexander Calder "The Waves" - French Wool Tapestry
By Alexander Calder
Located in New York, NY
- "Les Vagues" (The Waves) from the Bicentennial Tapestries series
- 41 x 59 in, 103 x 150 cm
- Signed by artist and monogrammed by atelier
- Numbered 39
- Atelier Pinton Frères in F...
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20th Century Modern French Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Silk
$85,000 / item
Vintage Aubusson Style French Jacquard Halluin Tapestry c1940s
By Gobelins Royal Manufactory, Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
This vintage French jacquard tapestry, probably crafted in the 1940s in the Aubusson style, showcases a richly detailed hunting scene. Woven in Halluin, a region renowned for its tex...
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1940s Rococo Vintage French Tapestries
Materials
Wool
Pretty Vintage Aubusson Style médiéval design Jacquard Tapestry
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
very beautiful French Aubusson style tapestry, with a design of a medieval tapestries. This tapestry has been made in the renowned “La Filandière” manufacturing
Beautiful colours w...
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Mid-20th Century Medieval French Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Mid-Century Modern Tapestry by Jean Picart le Doux,
Hommage a Paul Eluard
By Jean Picart Le Doux
Located in London, GB
This is a stunning tapestry by the well-known tapestry maker Jean Picart le Doux. It is signed on the bottom right hand side. The tapestry is named 'Homage a Paul Eluard...
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1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage French Tapestries
Materials
Wool
$6,604 Sale Price
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Lovely Large Vintage Hanging French Tapestry Wall Art
Located in Hopewell, NJ
A striking French tapestry having black background and gorgeous rich floral in gold, blue, pink and green. There's a rod opening at the top for easy hanging.
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1940s Vintage French Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Cotton
French Art Deco Tapestry
Located in New York, NY
French Art Deco tapestry
France, circa 1970s
Handwoven
Signed: Bleynie.
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Late 20th Century Art Deco French Tapestries
Materials
Wool
$35,000
1870 Antique French Tapestry Wool
Silk Tapestry Beige Handmade Tapestry
Located in New York, NY
Amazing Rare Antique French Tapestry Fine Wool & Silk
Beige
5'2" x 8"
158cm x249cm
Circa 1870
"This is a very fine Authentic Antique French Tapestry in Wool & Silk....
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1870s Antique French Tapestries
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Silk
18th Century French Felletin Verdure Landscape Tapestry, with Birds and Trees
Located in New York, NY
An antique 18th century French Felletin verdure landscape tapestry, size 8'10 H x 9'7 W. This handwoven antique wall hanging feat...
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18th Century Antique French Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Silk
$11,995 Sale Price
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1820
s Antique French Aubusson Tapestry with Venus and Adonis, 07
00 x 14
06
By Francesco Albani, François Boucher, Peter Paul Rubens
Located in Dallas, TX
77237 Antique French Aubusson Tapestry with Venus and Adonis, 07'00 x 14'06. This magnificent handwoven wool and silk antique French Aubusson tapestry exudes the grandeur and elegance of the Early 19th Century, drawing inspiration from the works of Italian Baroque painter Francesco Albani...
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Early 19th Century Louis XIV Antique French Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Silk
French Jacquard tapestry by Art de Lys - The Swing, after jean-Honoré Fragonard
By (After) Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Located in Paris, FR
Jacquard-woven tapestry by Art de Lys, circa 1980 – Louis XVI gallant scene in the style of Jean-Honoré Fragonard – 80 W × 128 H cm
Artist / Manufacturer: Art de Lys Jacquard
Period...
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20th Century French Provincial French Tapestries
Materials
Wool
17th Century Aubusson Verdure Bleue Tapestry depicting The Grape Harvest
Located in Dallas, TX
In 1665, Louis XIV gave workshops in Aubusson (France) the royal charter, making them responsible for producing tapestries for the King and nobility. A beautiful example of such an Aubusson tapestry is our verdure bleue wall hanging that depicts four grape harvest...
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17th Century Antique French Tapestries
Materials
Textile, Wool, Silk
French Aubusson Tapestry, Circa 1940 - L165xh108cm - No. 1520
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
Located a stone's throw from the Eiffel Tower in Paris, we are a French family business
specializing in the purchase, sale, expertise, cleaning, restoration and conservation of
tapes...
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1940s French Provincial Vintage French Tapestries
Materials
Wool
French Aubusson Style Jaquar Tapestry Medieval Design
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Very beautiful French tapestry with a design of a museum tapestry from 15th century and nice colors, mechanical Jaquar manufacturing woven with wool.
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Mid-20th Century Aubusson French Tapestries
Materials
Wool
European Tapestry from 19th Century, France Depicting Abundant Woodland Scene
Located in Atlanta, GA
This engaging antique European Tapestry from 1880s France depicts a traditional woodland landscape. The entire scene is set within an abundant woodland setting of trees, bushes and v...
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1880s Antique French Tapestries
Materials
Wool
Napoleon III Silk Embroidery Artwork with Horse Race Scene, circa 1880
By Travail Francais
Located in Atlanta, GA
Boost your private interior with the timeless elegance of this exquisite Napoleon III embroidery artwork, a rare masterpiece crafted in France during the late 19th century. Showcasin...
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Late 19th Century Napoleon III Antique French Tapestries
Materials
Fabric, Silk, Glass, Wood
pretty vintage French jacquard tapestry « the fountain »
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Discover the elegance of this exquisite French tapestry featuring a charming scene of a fountain in nature among the trees which are surrounded by rivers. All this is surrounded by b...
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Early 20th Century Aubusson French Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Cotton, Acrylic
Fragonard Honore, The Happy Chances of the Swing - French Tapestry - No. 1451
By Aubusson Manufacture, (After) Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Royal Manufacture of Aubusson
Located in Paris, FR
Located a stone's throw from the Eiffel Tower in Paris, we are a French family business
specializing in the purchase, sale, expertise, cleaning, restoration and conservation of
tapes...
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1840s Aubusson Antique French Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Silk
Flemish Tapestry 18th - The Swiss Guard, Pastoral Passage of the Pope - N° 1483
Located in Paris, FR
18th Century Flanders Tapestry - The Swiss Guard, Pastoral Passage of the Pope - No. 1483
Period: 18th century
Condition: Perfect condition
Material: Wool & silk
Width: 275 cm
Height...
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18th Century French Provincial Antique French Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Silk
Pretty vintage French Aubusson style Jacquard Tapestry
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
"Discover the timeless elegance of this exquisite vintage French tapestry featuring a captivating scene of pastoral love, showing a couple in countryside with the nature and a river ...
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Mid-20th Century Aubusson French Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Cotton, Acrylic
Bobyrug’s Nice Modern French Tapestry Signed Nee
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Explore timeless beauty with a midcentury French rug by Pauline Nee. This exquisite creation bears the signature touch of Nee Creation, a French enterprise known for crafting modern ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern French Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Pair of French 19 Century Aubusson Floral Tapestry Entre Fenetres
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A pair of French Aubusson tapestries woven in the mid-19th century. Originally intended to hang between windows in a formal French salon, but today could be hung on walls anywhere. W...
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Mid-19th Century Louis XV Antique French Tapestries
Materials
Wool
17th Century French Felletin Chinoiserie Mythological Tapestry w/ Trees
Satyrs
Located in New York, NY
A 17th century French Felletin Chinoiserie Mythological Tapestry, size 11'6"H x 17'9"W.
This grand mythological tapestry depicts a mythological forest scene, with various satyrs and other mythological figures reveling in Dionysian fashion in the confines of the woodland setting. Finely detailed, with nimble articulation of figures and form, the piece also incorporates chinoiserie motifs, with stylized trees and bushes that have Oriental styling. The lower right corner of the primary field features both the town mark and weaver's mark, as well as the French symbol of the fleur de lis. The tapestry is enclosed within an elaborate outer border, featuring pendant...
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17th Century Antique French Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Silk
$199,996 Sale Price
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Modern Aubusson Wall Tapestry by Guido Maggiori
By Guido Maggiori
Located in New York, NY
Modern wall Tapestry Designed by Guido Maggiori (b. 1944) Bold, Colorful Abstract Composition Entitled "Rouge, Vert, Jaune, Noir & Bleu". (Red, Green, Y...
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Late 20th Century Modern French Tapestries
Materials
Tapestry, Wool
18th C. French Hand Woven Aubusson Tapestry with Birds, Ruins, and Floral Border
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Dallas, TX
This exquisite antique tapestry was handwoven in Aubusson, France, circa 1760, and exemplifies the refined artistry and technical mastery for which this historic weaving center is ce...
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Mid-18th Century Louis XV Antique French Tapestries
Materials
Tapestry, Canvas
Tapestry Royal Manufacture of Aubusson, Louis XVI period 1738 at the Gobelins
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Madrid, ES
Tapestry from the Royal Manufacture of Aubusson, Louis XVI period , made in 1738 at the Gobelins
One panel from a series of Gobelins tapestries depicting the History of Esther, illustrating Esther seated and attended by handmaidens, one washing her feet in golden basin, another fastening a bracelet, another offering a mirror, all observed by Mordecai, woven in the workshop of Michele Audran after a design by J. F. de Troy.
The Toilet of Esther c.1778-85.Royal Collection Trust-Queens Audience Chamber
Windsor Castle
The Sketches for the Esther Cycle by Jean-François de Troy (1736)
“and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mor’decai, ..., took for his own daughter.” (Est. 2:7)
A supple and undulating genius, both a flattering portraitist and a prolix history painter, as well as a brilliant genre painter, in a gallant or worldly vein, Jean-François de Troy (Paris, 1679 – Rome, 1752), solicited, although he had passed the threshold of old age, a new royal commission up to his ambitions. To obtain it, he submitted – successfully - for the approval of the Bâtiments du roi (administration), seven modelli painted in 1736 with his usual alacrity.
Inspired by one of the most novelistic texts of the Old Testament, the Book of Esther, these sketches in a rapid and virtuoso manner were transformed by the artist, between 1737 and 1740 into large cartoons intended to serve as models for the weavers of the Gobelins factory. Showing undeniable ease and skill in the composition in perfect harmony with the sensitivities of the times, the tapestry set met with great success.
The Story of Esther perfectly corresponded to the plan of the Bâtiments du roi to renew the repertoire of tapestry models used for the weavers of the royal factories while it also conformed to the tastes of Louis XV’s subjects for a fantastical Orient, the set for a dramatic tale in which splendour, love and death were combined. Indeed, no tapestry set was woven in France during the 18th century as often as that of Esther.
The series of modelli painted by de Troy during the year 1736 looks to the history of French painting and decoration under Louis XV as much as it does the history of the Gobelins. It probably counts among the most important rococo pictorial groups to have remained in private hands. First the Biblical source illustrated by De Troy which constitutes the base of one of the richest iconographical traditions of Western art will be considered. Then the circumstances and specific character of French civilisation during the reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XV which contributed to making the theme of Esther a relevant subject, both attractive to contemporaries and remarkably in line with the sensitivities of the time will be elucidated.
An examination of the exceptional series of sketches united here, the cartoons and the tapestries that they anticipate as well as a study of their reception will close this essay. The Book of Esther: A scriptural source at the source of rich iconography.
The origin of the Esther tapestry set by Jean-François de Troy – origin and creation of a masterpiece
According to the evidence of one of the artist’s early biographers, the chevalier de Valory, author of a posthumous elegy of the master, read at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture on 6 February 1762, it was apparently due to early16 rivalry with François Lemoyne (1688-1737), his younger colleague who had precisely just been appointed First Painter to the King in 1736, that had encouraged François de Troy to seek a commission allowing him to show off his ease and his promptitude at the expense of a rival who was notoriously laborious: “M. De Troy, retaining some resentment of the kind of disadvantage which he believed to have suffered compared with his emulator looked to regain some territory by making use of the facility his rival did not possess.
Lemoyne was excessively long in the creation of his works,and M. De Troy of a rare celerity: consequently, with this particular talent, the latter offered to the court to make paintings appropriate to be executed at the Gobelins Factory; and it is to this circumstance that we owe the beautiful series of the Story of Esther, which would be sufficient alone to give him a great reputation.”17 Beyond the suspicion inspired by the topos, which still constitutes, more or less, a tale of rivalries between artists in ancient literature, there is probably some truth in what Valory reports although A.-J. Dezalier d’Argenville (who indicates rather spitefully that de Troy did not hesitate to “cut prices” to impose himself, benefitting from the productivity assured by the unlikely rapidity of his brush)18 proves to be more evasive: “As he looked to busy himself, he had offered to make the paintings that serve as models for the King’s tapestries cheaply: which did not please his colleagues.
He was given a choice of two tapestry series to be made and he took the Story of Esther and that of Jason”.19 Whether or not the choice was actually left to de Troy (which would appear rather casual on the royal administration’s part all the same), it seems likely that the artist, whose contemporaries extol his “fire”, as the faculty of invention was then called, must have ardently aspired to the possibility of using on a very large scale the “creative genius” with which Dezallier d’Argenville credits him. The decoration of the private apartments, the fashion for which Louis XV had promoted at Versailles and Fontainebleau, offered little opportunity to excel in this area. Other than painting for altarpieces, only tapestries could allow comparison with Lemoyne who had been granted – unfortunately for him – a major decoration: the enormous ceiling of the Hercules Room at Versailles. Favoured by the recent improvement in France’s financial situation, the revival of patronage offered de Troy a commission fitting for him, in a field in which, however, he had hardly any experience.
Anxious to renew the repertoire of models available to the Gobelins factory, the Duc d’Antin, surintendant des Bâtiments du roi from 1708 to 1736 followed by his successor, Philibert Orry comte de Vignory, gave him the task of producing seven large cartoons inspired by the Book of Esther corresponding to the brilliant sketches or modelli which de Troy had produced in one go, or almost (very few preparatory drawings can in fact be linked to the Esther cycle and all seem to be at the execution stage of the cartoons).20 Subjected to the approval of the Administration des Bâtiments according to the procedure in use for projects being planned for the Gobelins, sketches made rapidly during 1736 were approved and the project launched immediately. Thereupon came the news of François Lemoyne’s death, who, ground down by work and a victim of his private torment, committed suicide on 4 June 1737.
Against all expectations, de Troy did not replace his rival in the position of First Painter (which remained vacant until the appointment of Charles Coypel in January 1747), which would perhaps have made him too obviously the beneficiary of the drama. The awarding of the position of Director of the French Academy in Rome came to console him while he had already produced (or he was in the process of finishing), in Paris, three of the seven cartoons of the cycle (The Fainting of Esther finished in 1737 and the Toilet and Coronation of Esther, both finished in 1738).
De Troy, we can see, did not follow the order of the narrative but began with the subjects which apparently offered the least difficulty because he had already depicted them, or because they fall into a strong pictorial tradition (such is the case especially for the Fainting of Esther). He had hardly settled at the Palazzo Mancini in August 1738, when his first task which awaited the new director of the French Academy naturally consisted of honouring the royal commission and finishing without delay the final cartoons of the Story of Esther after the sketches he must have taken with him. As prompt as ever, de Troy discharged himself of the execution of the four remaining cartoons in only two years, by beginning with the largest format which allowed him to strike the imagination and to impose himself as soon as he arrived on the Roman stage: the Triumph of Mor’decai which was finished in 1739 (like Esther’s Banquet).
The following year, the Mor’decai's Disdain and The Sentencing of Haman were brought to an end in the same Neo-Venetian style, obviously tributary to Veronese with its choice of “open” monumental architecture which is characteristic of the entire cycle.21 The series, it should be noted, was almost augmented with some additional scenes in the mid 1740s. Indeed, the first tapestry set finished at the Gobelins in 1744 proved to be unsuitable for the arrangement of the Dauphine’s apartments at Versailles for which it had been intended to decorate the walls the following year (cf infra). Informed of this, de Troy, considering that the story of Esther offered “several good subjects,” immediately offered to illustrate one or new subject among those “which could appear to be the most interesting”.
The directeur des Bâtiments Orry, who managed the State’s accounts, obviously judged it less costly to have one of the tapestries widened to fill in the end of the Dauphine’s bedroom,22 which has probably deprived us of very original compositions, because de Troy had already illustrated the most famous themes, those that benefitted from a strongly established iconographical tradition and from which it was not easy to deviate
The Tapestry Set of the Story of Esther
Placed on the tapestry looms of the Gobelins at the end of the 1730s in Michel Audran’s workshop, the cycle created by de Troy aroused true infatuation. The few hundred tapestries made between 1738 and 1797 – all in high-warp tapestry and woven in wool and silk except for four in low-warp made in Neilson’s workshop – show the impressive success of a tapestry set that was without any doubt the most frequently woven of the 18th century in France.
29 Only three cartoons had been delivered by de Troy in 1738 when the first tapestry set was begun by Audran under the expert eye of Jean-Baptiste Oudry to whom the Directeur général des bâtiments, Philibert Orry had assigned the (weekly) supervision of the weaving. During the summer of 1738, the piece of the Fainting of Esther, which Oudry judged to be admirable, was finished.
During the winter of 1742, Oudry informed Orry that about two ells of the Triumph of Mor’decai had been made “with no faults”,that the Coronation of Esther was finished and that the Esther at her Toilet “a very gracious tapestry” was “a little over half” finished. Exhibited at Versailles in 1743, these two last pieces were admired by Louis XV and the Court.
On 3 December 1744, the set of seven tapestries was finally delivered to the Garde Meuble. It was intended, the honour was not slight, to decorate the apartments of the Infanta Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain whose marriage to the young Dauphin Louis-Ferdinand had been fixed for the following year (it took place on 23 February 1745). Apparently it was thought that the theme of Esther the biblical heroine and wife of a foreign sovereign was appropriate for the apartments of the Spanish Dauphine.
As early as the month of March, the architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel informed de Troy that her grand cabinet was decorated with the “Esther tapestry set” specifying however that “for lack of two small or one large piece, we have not been able to decorate the end of the room”. This difficulty led immediately to the Banquet episode being woven a second time in two parts (they were delivered to the Garde-Meuble on 30 December 1746) to garnish the panels on each side of the bed of the Dauphine who would hardly enjoy them (she died on 22 July 1746 and the decoration was installed for the new Dauphine Maria Josepha of Saxony).
The appearance of the set’s remarkable border, which imitated a richly sculpted wooden frame, should be mentioned. Conceived in 1738 by the ornamentalist Pierre Josse-Perrot and used in the later weavings until 1768, it tended to reinforce the resolutely painterly appearance of the tapestry set which, in this regard, pushed the art of tapestry as far as its ultimate mimetic possibilities. With the exception of Mor’decai's Disdain which had been removed earlier, the “editio princeps” of the story of Esther (from then on in nine pieces) remained at Versailles until the Revolution. Of the eight surviving tapestries, four are at the chateau of Compiègne and four belong today to the Mobilier National. No less than seven tapestry sets reputed to be complete (one of them in fact only had six tapestries) would be produced officially at the Gobelins up to 1772.
Literature:
1- The Œuvres mêlées of an emulator of Racine, the Abbé Augustin NADAL thus include an Esther. Divertissement spiritual which is exactly contemporary with Jean François de Troy’s cycle since it was performed in 1735 and published in Paris three years later.
2-Le Siècle de Louis XIV, 1751, 1785 ed., p. 96-97 for French ed.
3- Lemoyne and de Troy had been obliged to share the First Prize in the competition organised in 1727 between the most prominent history painters of the Académie Royale.
4- Mémoires…, pub. L. DUSSIEUX et al., 1854, II, p.265.
5-The fact that de Troy, at the risk of falling out with his colleagues, did not hesitate to make use of prices in order to convince the new directeur des Bâtiments Philibert Orry, is confirmed by Mariette who adds tersely “it caused much shouting” (pub. 1851-1860, II, p. 103).
6- Abrégé de la vie des plus fameux peintres…, ed. 1762, IV, p. 368-369 20 Early comments on the painter are inclined to present him as a kind of “pure painter”, doing without the medium of drawing, a few intermediary studies between the Esther sketches and the large cartoons at the Louvre nevertheless show that de Troy used red chalk (see in the catalogue, the notice for the Meal of Esther and Ahasuerus under the entry drawing) to change one or other figure.
7-C. GASTINEL-COURAL (cat. exp. PARIS, 1985, p. 9-13) as well as the article by J. VITTET, exh. cat. LA ROCHE-GUYON, 2001, p. 51-55.
8-The Hermitage in St. Petersburg conserves five tapestries of these two royal gifts whose provenance still awaits elucidation (as far as we are aware). In 1766, the Grand Marshal of Russia, Count Razumovski (or Razamowski), acquired the Fainting and the Banquet extracted from the sixth weaving (J. VITTET, 2001, p. 53).
9- Lettres écrites de Suisse, d’Italie…,quoted by J. VITTET, op. cit., p. 54.
10-The tapestry set remained in the hands of a branch of the Hapsburg-Lorraine family until 1933 (ibid. P. 54).
11-Quoted by Chr. LERIBAULT, 2002, p. 97, note 269.
12-Y. CANTAREL-BESSON, 1992, p. 241.
Catalogue
The Esther at her Toilet
Oil on canvas, 57 x 51 cm Provenance: Painted in 1736 at the same time as the six other modelli of the Story of Esther intended to be presented, for approval, to the direction des Bâtiments du Roi; perhaps identifiable among a lot of sketches by Jean-François de Troy in the post mortem inventory of the amateur, historian and critic Claude-Henri Watelet (1718-1786) drawn up on 13 January 1786 and following days (A.N. T 978, n° 30) then in the sale of the property of the deceased, Paris, 12 June 1786, n° 33; Paris, François Marcille Collection (who owned a series of six sketches from which the Triumph of Mor’decai was missing, see infra); Paris, Marcille Sale, Hôtel Drouot, 12-13 January 1857, n° 36; Asnières, Mme de Chavanne de Palmassy ( ?) collection; Paris, Galerie Cailleux; Paris, Humbert de Wendel collection (acquired from the Galerie Cailleux in 1928); by inheritance in the same family; Paris, Sotheby’s, 23 June 2011, n° 61. In order not to add unnecessarily to the technical commentary on each work, the catalogue raisonné by Chr. Leribault which contains a substantial bibliography on the series should be referred to. The other bibliographical references only concern the publications and exhibitions to have appeared and been presented more recently. Bibliography and Exhibitions: Chr. LERIBAULT, 2002, n° P. 247 (repr.); E. LIMARDO DATURI, 2004, p. 28; Exh. cat. NANTES, 2011, p. 138, n° 34, referred to in note 1; Sotheby’s catalogue, Tableaux anciens et du XIXe siècle, 23 June 2011, n° 61 (repr.).
Related Works:
Tapestry cartoon: The cartoon (oil on canvas, 329 x 320 cm), the third made by the artist in Paris after the sketches had been approved by the direction des Bâtiments, is in the Louvre (Inv. 8315). It previously bore the painter’s signature and the date 1738 (inscriptions which are found on the tapestries). The royal administration paid 1600 livres for it on 21 June 1738 and it was exhibited at the Salon in the year of its creation.
Summary Biography
1679 (27 January): Baptism in Paris (Parish of St. Nicolas du Chardonnet) of Jean-François de Troy, son of the painter François de Troy and Jeanne Cotelle, sister of the painter Jean II Cotelle.
1696-1698: Studies (apparently rather turbulent) at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture.
1698-1708: First trip to Italy. Is obliged to leave Rome in January 1711 after a tempestuous affair (a duel?), de Troy extends the traditional Roman experience as a pensionnaire at the Académie de France by also visiting Tuscany where he stays for a long time, Venice (his art in face has a strongly Venetian character) and Genoa.
1708: De Troy (whose father had been elected Director of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture on 7 July) is agréé and immediately received at the Académie with Apollo and Diana Piercing with their Arrows the Children of Niobe (Montpellier, Musée Fabre) on 28 July.
1710: First royal commission, paid for on 10 May (a sketch representing “the Promotion of the Order of the Holy Spirit” for the tapestry series of the History of the King).
1716: Jean-François de Troy is elected Assistant Professor at the Academy.
1720: He is appointed Professor.
1723: The artist creates the double portrait of Louis XV...
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Early 18th Century Baroque Antique French Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Silk
Nice French Aubusson Style Medieval Design jacquard Tapestry
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Behold this exquisite French tapestry, meticulously crafted as a museum-tapestry design replica. This tapestry captures the essence of a renowned masterpiece, featuring a captivating...
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Mid-20th Century Medieval French Tapestries
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Wool, Cotton
Wonderful Vintage French screen printed by hand Tapestry « Maximilian
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Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Discover the elegance of this mid-century French hand-printed tapestry featuring the exquisite design of « The month of July or The sign of the lion or The report, from the tapestry ...
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Mid-20th Century Medieval French Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Cotton, Linen
Antique French Tapestry Verdure Birds Wool
Silk 1920 6x7
Located in New York, NY
Antique French Tapestry Verdure Birds Wool & Silk 1920 6x7
6' x 7'3" 221cm x 183cm
"A magnificent antique French tapestry depicting birds amongst a verdure setting. Beautiful colo...
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1920s Baroque Vintage French Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Silk
La Tapisserie Gothique by Goeblins, 1st Ed, Leather Bound, Presentation Copy
Located in valatie, NY
La Tapisserie Gothique, par Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins, by E. Planès, Directeur de la Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins. Published by Albert Morancé...
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1920s Vintage French Tapestries
Materials
Leather, Paper
19th Century French Aubusson Verdure Landscape Tapestry
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in New York, NY
Handwoven in Aubusson, France in the 19th Century, this lovely verdure wall piece has its original fruit and floral border. It measures 3.6 x 7.9 ft. The decorative wall hanging tape...
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19th Century Aubusson Antique French Tapestries
Materials
Tapestry, Wool
French Aubusson Tapestry, Late 17th - Jesus and the Samaritan Woman - N° 1547
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
Aubusson Tapestry, Late 17th Century - Jesus and the Samaritan Woman - 2m35Hx1m55W - No. 1547
Period: 17th century
Style: Biblical
Condition: Perfect condition - Hand woven
Material:...
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Late 17th Century Aubusson Antique French Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Silk
French Vintage Tapestry Gallant Scene
Located in Barntrup, DE
French Vintage Tapestry Gallant Scene from the mid-20th century.
A beautiful French tapestry in Aubusson style, within a leaf border featuring a gallant scene - a romantic scene in a...
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1950s Rococo Vintage French Tapestries
Materials
Fabric, Cotton
Bobyrug’s Vintage French Jaquar Tapestry Aubusson Style
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Beautiful tapestry Aubusson style, woven on jacquard loom, mid-20th century. Wool and cotton.
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"Experience the epitome of luxury and craftsmanship ...
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Mid-20th Century Aubusson French Tapestries
Materials
Wool
Large Hand Woven Tapestry of Roman Triumph of Caesar Flemish Style
Located in Nashville, TN
Hand woven tapestry depicting a Caesar or Victorous warrior at the end of his triumph bowing and swearing allegiance to Roman law before a Curia of Senators ,lectors behind the victo...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Tapestries
Materials
Tapestry
$3,100 Sale Price
31% Off
Jean Picart Le Doux, French tapestry Atelier Pinton, 1x6, L5m00xh2m00 - No. 1437
By Aubusson Manufacture, Jean Picart Le Doux, Atelier Pinton
Located in Paris, FR
Artist: Jean Picart Le Doux
Period: 20th century
Style: Modern art
Condition: Perfect condition
Material: Wool
Width: 500 cm
Height: 200 cm
A stone's throw from the Eiffel Tower We...
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1960s Aubusson Vintage French Tapestries
Materials
Wool
$38,689 Sale Price
20% Off
Bobyrug’s Nice French Aubusson Style Jacquard Tapestry
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
"Exquisite French tapestry from the mid-20th century, featuring a beautiful design and nice colours, woven at Jules Pansu workshops in jacquard loom by wool and cotton. »
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"Exper...
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Mid-20th Century Aubusson French Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Philippe Hecquet, Birds of the Sun - French Aubusson Tapestry - 200x150 - N 1477
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
Philippe Hecquet, Birds of the Sun - Tapestry Manufacture Aubusson - L200xh150 - No. 1477
Located a stone's throw from the Eiffel Tower in Paris, we are a French family business
spe...
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20th Century Modern French Tapestries
Materials
Wool
Pretty vintage French Aubusson style Jacquard Tapestry « Hunting with hounds »
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
"Discover the timeless elegance of this exquisite vintage French tapestry featuring Renaissance-style jacquard tapestry, "Hunting with Hounds," depicts a scene of a hunting with houn...
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Mid-20th Century Aubusson French Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Modern French Tapestry, Atelier Felletin - Signed Couraud, Edition 1/4 - 1454
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
French Hand made Modern French Tapestry AUBUSSON, Atelier Felletin - Signed COURAUD Edition 1/4 - No. 1454
Located a stone's throw from the Eiffel Tower in Paris, we are a French fa...
Category
1960s Aubusson Vintage French Tapestries
Materials
Wool
Bobyrug’s Nice Vintage Aubusson Style Jaquar Tapestry
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Very beautiful french Aubusson style tapestry with beautiful gallant design on the beach with beautiful colors, woven with Jaquar manufacturing with wool and cotton.
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"Experience...
Category
Mid-20th Century Aubusson French Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Hunting Scene - French Tapestry Jacuqard, Circa 1940 - 196lx134h - N° 1509
Located in Paris, FR
This magnificent medieval style tapestry from the Jacquard Manufactory in Aubusson, having benefited from a deep cleaning and a meticulous check and doubled by experts in our artisan...
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1940s French Provincial Vintage French Tapestries
Materials
Wool
Pretty small 20th century french Aubusson tapestry
By atelier robert four
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Very beautiful 20th century Aubusson tapestry with a design of tapestries from 18th or 18th centuries, with the nature and with trees with bird and the river, a country house behind,...
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1970s Aubusson Vintage French Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Silk
Mid-Century French Textile Wall Hanging Design by Robert Debiève
By Roger Debievres
Located in Antwerp, BE
This striking mid-century French wall hanging is a printed textile artwork designed by renowned French artist Robert Debiève. Known for his vibrant, playful compositions, Debiève’s...
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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern French Tapestries
Materials
Fabric
Pretty antique tapestry cardboard hand painted panel
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Pretty 19th century French tapestry cardboard with a nice design of swing game featuring a young man standing pushing a young girl sitting on the swing. At a setting in the woods, be...
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Late 19th Century Romantic Antique French Tapestries
Materials
Cotton, Linen
Aubusson French handmade tapestry made of wool and cotton.
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Firenze, FI
This 310 cm. x 210 cm. large tapestry originates from Aubusson in France, known for their fine quality and detailed designs
A castle in the background and a hunting scene in the fore...
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1950s Vintage French Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Aubusson Tapestry by Jean Lurcat - hand woven and signed - titled " AQUARIUS"
By Jean Lurçat
Located in Greenwich, CT
Jean LURÇAT (1892-1966)
‘Le Verseau or Aquarius’ from the series 'Les signes du Zodiaque'
Hand woven wool Tapestry in Aubusson at Ateliers Picaud, 1960’s
dimensions: 28 x38 inches
...
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1960s Modern Vintage French Tapestries
Materials
Wool
Mille-Fleurs Tapestry signed by Aubusson Manufacture – 19th Century – No. 1562
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
Mille-Fleurs Tapestry signed Manufacture Aubusson - 19th century - 152Lx125H - No. 1562
Artist: Aubusson Manufactory
Era: 19th century
Style: High period - Renaissance - Louis XIII
C...
Category
19th Century Aubusson Antique French Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Silk
"Le Sagitaire" Zodiac Signs Themed Tapestry by Elie Grekoff, France, 1960s
By Elie Grekoff
Located in New York, NY
Outstanding hand printed on wool wall tapestry.
Category
1960s Vintage French Tapestries
Materials
Wool
17th century Aubusson tapestry - the rest after the harvest - N° 1331
Located in Paris, FR
Piece of collectionTapestry 17th century Aubusson - the rest after the harvest
Close to the Eiffel Tower, We are a family business specialized in the purchase, sale and expertise of
tapestries, carpets, kilims and textiles old, modern and contemporary.
We work for private clients, amateurs, antique dealers...
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1680s Aubusson Antique French Tapestries
Materials
Wool
Bobyrug’s Beautiful Little 18th Century French Needlepoint Fragment Tapestry
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Nice little French needlepoint tapestry with beautiful floral design and nice natural colors, entirely hand embroidered with needlepoint method with wool.
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"Experience the epitom...
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Late 18th Century Aubusson Antique French Tapestries
Materials
Wool
Wonderful Vintage French screen printed by hand Tapestry “the winegrowers”
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Discover the elegance of this mid-century French screen printed by hand tapestry featuring an alteration from the exquisite design of the renowned medieval museum tapestry, "Les Vend...
Category
Mid-20th Century Aubusson French Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Jean Lurçat Woolen Tapestry, “Le Bouc Blue” – France 1950s
By Jean Lurçat
Located in Renens, CH
Handwoven tapestry, 'Le Bouc Bleu' by Jean Lurçat for Atelier Jane Pérethon,
Signed and labelled.
Origination: 1950s, France.
Condition: Very good. Tapestry has been professiona...
Category
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage French Tapestries
Materials
Wool
French Hand-Printed Tapestry in Medieval style - H 114 x L 97 cm - N° 1438
Located in Paris, FR
Located a stone's throw from the Eiffel Tower in Paris, we are a French family business
specializing in the purchase, sale, expertise, cleaning, restoration and conservation of
tapes...
Category
1980s Medieval Vintage French Tapestries
Materials
Wool
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