SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY, AFTER DESIGNS BY CLAUDE-JOSEPH VERNET

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AN AUBUSSON SEAPORT TAPESTRY
Second half 18th Century, after designs by Claude-Joseph Vernet
Woven in wools and silks, from the series Les Marines, depicting a harbour scene with a couple to the left being handed bread from a basket by a seated maiden, beside her a maiden wearing a feathered headdress, to the right with further figures pursuing various trades, to the far right with two men wearing exotic robes and turbans, the background with various barges on the ocean and with a lighthouse to the right, within a later blue outer slip, reduced in size, the sky and the lower edge later, restorations
76½ in. x 131½ in. (194.5 cm. x 334 cm.)

拍品專文

The illustrious Claude-Joseph Vernet (d. 1789) specialised in marine subjects. Through the Marquis de Marigny, brother of Mme. de Pompadour, he received the commission to paint the ports of France for Louis XV, on which this subject is based.
A related tapestry depicting the bay of Naples with Vesuvius in the distance is illustrated in D. and P. Chevalier and P.-F. Bertrand, Les Tapisseries d'Aubusson et de Felletin, Lausanne, 1988, p. 165, and a further related tapestry was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 6 June 1991, lot 13.