AFTERNOON SESSION AT 2.30 P.M. TAPESTRIES AND CARPETS THE PROPERTY OF A LADY (Lots 201-204)

AN AUBUSSON PASTORAL TAPESTRY

THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

細節

AN AUBUSSON PASTORAL TAPESTRY
Third quarter 18th Century
Woven in wools and silks, depicting a lady reclining under a tree with a basket of flowers and a staff and with a small boy on her left, in the background houses and more trees, within a border of a column wrapped with flowers, with unidentified weaver's mark 'M.R.I.B' , sewn down at the edges
112 in. x 51 in. (285 cm. x 130 cm.)

來源

Marquis Antoine Forbin de la Barben.
Thence by descent.

拍品專文

The central figures of this tapestry appear in a larger tapestry of a landscape view whose design is attributed to Claude-Joseph Vernet (d. 1789), which was sold anonymously, Liber, Castor, Paris, 31 May 1995, lot 295.