A PAIR OF EARLY LOUIS XV BEAUVAIS ARMORIAL ENTRE FENETRE TAPESTRY PANELS, FROM THE GROTESQUES SERIES

Lot 23
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Lot 23 | A PAIR OF EARLY LOUIS XV BEAUVAIS ARMORIAL ENTRE FENETRE TAPESTRY PANELS, FROM THE GROTESQUES SERIES
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£ 120 000 – 180 000
A PAIR OF EARLY LOUIS XV BEAUVAIS ARMORIAL ENTRE FENETRE TAPESTRY PANELS, FROM THE GROTESQUES SERIES

CIRCA 1724-32, AFTER JEAN-BAPTISTE MONNOYER AND JEAN I BERAIN

Each woven in silks and wools, centred by the arms of the Gontaut-Biron family flanked by lions on an ochre-coloured ground, within a Chinoiserie and Grotesque border, the arms replaced circa 1750 by Charles-Antoine de Gontaut, duc de Biron

137 in. (340 cm.) high; 741/2 in. (179 cm.) wide





Provenance

Probably commissioned for Louise de Gontaut-Biron (1655-1739), widow of Joseph-Marie de Lascaris, Marquis d’Urfé (1652-1724);

by descent to her heir, Charles-Antoine de Gontaut, duc de Biron (1708-1800), who probably replaced the Lascaris arms with his own.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, Paris, 6 April 2011, lot 35.

Private Collection, London.



Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:

E.A. Standen, ‘Some Beauvais tapestries related to Berain’, Acts of the tapestry symposium, The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, November 1976.

C.J. Adelson, European Tapestry in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 1994.

C. Bremer-David, French Tapestries and textiles in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 1997.





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