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A ROYAL LOUIS XVI GOBELINS MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY FROM `LES TENTURES DE FRANCOIS BOUCHER`

Lot 49
06.07.2023 12:00UTC +00:00
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£ 113 400
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ID 992800
Lot 49 | A ROYAL LOUIS XVI GOBELINS MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY FROM 'LES TENTURES DE FRANCOIS BOUCHER'
Estimate value
£ 100 000 – 150 000
A ROYAL LOUIS XVI GOBELINS MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY FROM 'LES TENTURES DE FRANCOIS BOUCHER'

BY JACQUES NEILSON, MAURICE JACQUES AND LOUIS TESSIER CIRCA 1778-81, THE MEDALLIONS AFTER THE DESIGN BY FRANCOIS BOUCHER

Woven in wools and silks, the medallions suspended from ribbons depicting Venus Emerging From the Waters signed 'F.Boucher 1766' and Aurora and Cephalus signed 'F. Boucher 1763', against a red damask ground hung with floral swags and centred by a gold-mounted flowering vase flanked by putti, within a gold vitruvian scroll and beaded border, signed 'NELSON'

143 3/4 in. (365 cm.) high; 226 1/4 in. (575 cm.) wide





Provenance

Commissioned for Jean-Balthazar, comte d'Adhemar (1736-1790), French Ambassador to Great Britain circa 1783 but not delivered;

Given to Prince Heinrich of Prussia (1726–1802) by Louis XVI of France circa 1784;

recorded in the prince's posthumous inventory circa 1802 in his bedroom in the Palais des Prinzen Heinrich, Berlin.

With Frankhauser, Basel.

Swiss Private Collection (acquired 1977).



Literature

M. Fenaille, Etat général des Tapisseries de la manufacture des gobelins 1600-1900, Deuxième Partie, Paris 1907, pp. 285, 288-289.

H. Göbel, Die Wandteppiche und ihre Manufakturen in Frankreich, Italien, Spanien und Portugal, Bd.I, Leipzig, 1928.



COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:

S. Evers, ‘Tapisserien für Berlin und Rheinsberg, Die Geschenke aus den Teppichmanufakturen von Paris und St. Petersburg und ihre Präsentation in den Wohnungen des Prinzen Heinrich’, in Prinz Heinrich von Preussen, Ein Europäer in Rheinsberg, pp. 455–65.





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Artist:Jacques Neilson (1718-1788)
Historical era:Period of Louis XV
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Furniture and Lamps
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