A REGENCE BEAUVAIS TAPESTRY PANEL

CIRCA 1720

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A REGENCE BEAUVAIS TAPESTRY PANEL
Circa 1720
Depicting Venus at her toilet, with Cupid and another attendant by her side beneath a lambrequin canopy flanked by flowering trees, in an associated early Louis XV giltwood frame carved with foliate-tied reeded borders and stiff-leaf slip enclosing a sanded ground, the tapestry panel probably orginally intended for a firescreen, with handwritten label on the frame inscribed 'cadre du lot' and further inscribed 'no. 29'
27 x 22in. (68.5 x 57cm.) (including frame)

Provenance

F. Gurault, 3 rue Roquepine, Paris, sold at Mes. Belier and Ancel, Paris, 21 March 1935, lot 133 (bought by Bensimon).

Lot Essay

An identical tapestry panel, retaining its original borders and set within a Louis XVI giltwood firesceen, was supplied by Haur, Boulard and Gurin for the Bains du Roi at Compigne in 1785, at a cost of 96 livres. Sold by L. Neumann, Esq. of 11 Grosvenor Square, Christie's London, 2 July 1919, lot 76, it is now in the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (Objets d'Art Franais de la Collection Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 1969, no.8).

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