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AN AUBUSSON HISTORICAL TAPESTRY
LATE 17TH CENTURY, ATELIER COLBERT
After a cartoon by Charles LeBrun depicting the Triumph of Alexander from the Stories of Alexander, with Alexander the Great entering Babylon in his chariot attended by his warriors, all within a classical architectural landscape within a border woven with scallop shells entwined with garlands, the lower right selvege woven with the inscription M.R. DAUBUSSON COLBERT for the Manufacture Royale d'Aubusson, Colbert Atelier (areas of reweaving)-9ft. 7in. x 13ft. 11in. (2m. 87.5cm. x 4m. 17.5cm.)
A virtually identical tapestry with scrolling foliate borders was sold Sotheby's Parke Bernet Monaco, 24-25 June 1984, lot 3247.
LATE 17TH CENTURY, ATELIER COLBERT
After a cartoon by Charles LeBrun depicting the Triumph of Alexander from the Stories of Alexander, with Alexander the Great entering Babylon in his chariot attended by his warriors, all within a classical architectural landscape within a border woven with scallop shells entwined with garlands, the lower right selvege woven with the inscription M.R. DAUBUSSON COLBERT for the Manufacture Royale d'Aubusson, Colbert Atelier (areas of reweaving)-9ft. 7in. x 13ft. 11in. (2m. 87.5cm. x 4m. 17.5cm.)
A virtually identical tapestry with scrolling foliate borders was sold Sotheby's Parke Bernet Monaco, 24-25 June 1984, lot 3247.