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18th CENTURY AUBUSSON FABRIC, circa 1755 La Fontaine, part of the Grand Rideaux tapestry Model and card attributed to Jean-Joseph Dumons (1687-1779) Wool and silk;borderless (possibly original), wear, old restorations, tears and missing curtains Dimensions:320 x 346 cm (126 x 136 ¼ in.) Comparative bibliography: D. Chevalier, P. Chevalier, P. Bertrand, Les tapisseries d'Aubusson et Felletin, Éditions La Bibliothèque des Arts, p.111. An Aubusson tapestry, 18th century, circa 1755, The Fountain, from the Grands Rideaux set, attributed to Jean-Joseph Dumons (1687-1779)

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18th CENTURY AUBUSSON FABRIC, circa 1755 La Fontaine, part of the Grand Rideaux tapestry Model and card attributed to Jean-Joseph Dumons (1687-1779) Wool and silk;borderless (possibly original), wear, old restorations, tears and missing curtains Dimensions:320 x 346 cm (126 x 136 ¼ in.) Comparative bibliography: D. Chevalier, P. Chevalier, P. Bertrand, Les tapisseries d'Aubusson et Felletin, Éditions La Bibliothèque des Arts, p.111. An Aubusson tapestry, 18th century, circa 1755, The Fountain, from the Grands Rideaux set, attributed to Jean-Joseph Dumons (1687-1779)

Estimate 4 000 - 6 000 EUR

Starting price 4 000 EUR

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For sale on Wednesday 10 Jul : 14:00 (CEST)

paris, France

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jeudi 04 juillet - 11:00/18:00, Artcurial, Paris

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TAPESTRY FROM THE ROYAL MANUFACTORY OF AUBUSSON, late 17th-early 18th CENTURY Verdure à l'oiseau Woven in wool and silk; diminished in height and width, top and bottom borders added, wear, old restorations and reweaving Dimensions:291 x 198 cm (114 ½ x 78 in.) An Aubusson verdure tapestry, late 17th-early 18th century

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French Aubusson tapestry, 19th century. "Landscape with castle". Hand-knotted wool. Measurements: 215 x 296 cm. The refinement of this hand-woven tapestry testifies to the high quality of Aubusson tapestries. A luxuriant garden opens before us showing a small lake with bridges on its banks and a castle in the background. Cherry blossoms and rose bushes border the pond. The landscape has been resolved with ease and descriptive precision, in richly contrasting tones with a predominance of green, blue and earthy tones, with pink details. The subject is in keeping with nineteenth-century aristocratic taste. The city of Aubusson agglutinated numerous tapestry workshops, which were created by Flemish weavers who settled in the area at the end of the 16th century. They had a rudimentary operation, compared to the Royal Gobelins Manufacture: they had no painters, dyers, nor a commercial structure, so their tapestries were sold in inns, to a lower class private clientele, mainly provincial aristocrats. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Aubusson workshops specialized in vegetable tapestries (with eminently floral decoration), but the situation changed radically when, in the mid-seventeenth century, this center was reorganized by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, minister of Louis XIV, with the aim of converting these workshops into royal manufactories. He then subjected the Aubusson and Felletin workshops to a guild regulation and, in exchange, promised to provide them with a painter and a dyer. This promise, however, would not become effective until the 18th century, a turning point for the workshops of La Marche, which would see a considerable increase in the quality of their tapestries by being able to count on a painter dedicated to making cartons and a dyer who would produce dyes of a higher quality than those used until then.

An Aubusson tapestry

An Aubusson tapestry

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