A LOUIS XVI GOBELINS TAPESTRY by Lefebvre, woven in wools and silks, depicting courtly figures and a wedding banquet with two couples carrying flaming stakes before a table by a two headed figure beneath a canopy with a jester, musician and other attendants, within an architectural setting, the geometric floor with splayed eagles and with a plate-adorned mantelpiece, the borders woven with trialing foliage and floral panels, centred by a medallion of a putto emptying two decanters flanked by fruiting cornucopiae, restorations to weaving

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A LOUIS XVI GOBELINS TAPESTRY by Lefebvre, woven in wools and silks, depicting courtly figures and a wedding banquet with two couples carrying flaming stakes before a table by a two headed figure beneath a canopy with a jester, musician and other attendants, within an architectural setting, the geometric floor with splayed eagles and with a plate-adorned mantelpiece, the borders woven with trialing foliage and floral panels, centred by a medallion of a putto emptying two decanters flanked by fruiting cornucopiae, restorations to weaving
141¼ x 127in. (356 x 323cm.) (5)

Literature

Exhibition catalogue: Exposition de l'Union centrale des Beaux-Arts appliques à l'industrie, 1876, cat. no. 360 bis.

M. Fenaille, Etate General des Tapisseries de la Manufacture des Gobelins, Paris, 1903, vol. I, p. 354.

Reproduced in E. Münte, La Tapisserie, Paris, 1882, p. 221

Lot Essay

This tapestry was made in conjunction with a series made by Lefebvre between 1731 and 1735 as part of the Septième Tenture made of the Les Mois Lucas series. This tenture was eventually bought by King Stanislas of Poland, who added the Royal insignia to the border.

At the same time Lefebvre executed further tapestries of the same series for individual clients. They were of the same subject but with slight variations in the borders. This particular tapestry is first individually mentioned in the exhibition Exposition de l'Union centrale des Beaux-Arts appliqués à l'industrie of 1876 as cat. no. 360 bis. No. 360 bis. Le Mois de Janvier. - Gobelins, monogramme: L.F. (Le Febvre), à Madame Masselin

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