ID 1126381
Lot 19 | A LOUIS XIV GOBELINS TAPESTRY
Estimate value
$ 100 000 – 200 000
AFTER THE DESIGN BY CHARLES LE BRUN, 1690-1700
Woven in wools and silks with the Royal Arms of France and Navarre, above a palm-wrapped 'L' and St. Esprit, with scrolled armorial cartouche surmounted by two winged putti holding aloft the Royal Crown and flanked by figures emblematic of Fame and Flora, within an egg-and-dart molded shaped slip frame and further border woven with oak leaves
Approximately 9 ft. 2 in. (279.5 cm.) by 7 ft. 5 in. (226 cm.)
Provenance
Possibly Château de Langeais, sold Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 13-18 December 1886, lot 765.
The Collection of William K. Vanderbilt, Idle Hour, Oakdale, New York.
Furniture & Furnishings from Idle Hour, former country residence of the Late William K. Vanderbilt; American Art Association, New York, 29 April 1926, lot 444.
The Collection of Edmund Glenn Burke.
Thence by descent to the present owner.
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