拍品 85
85
THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
A GOBELINS MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY

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A GOBELINS MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY
CIRCA 1740, ATELIER OF MICHEL AUDRAN, AFTER DESIGNS BY ÉTIENNE JEAURAT

Centrally woven with a scene depicting Daphnis and Chloe as they are presented by the nymphs to Cupid, who touches the children with his arrow telling Daphne to herd goats and Chloe to herd sheep, with putti sprinkling poppies above the architectural ruins, within acanthus borders woven with fleur-de-lys at the angles-11ft. 7in. x 12ft. 13in. (3m. 47cm. x 3m. 69cm.)

拍品專文

This lot is the first in a series of six tapestries depicting scenes from the Romance of Daphis and Chloe, woven in the Gobelins atelier of Michel Audran (1701-1771) after designs by Étienne Jeaurat (1699-1789). A closely related version which features a sleeping goatherd rather than a pillar in the foreground is in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh and illustrated in M. Swain, Tapestries and Textiles, Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, 1988, p. 56. For a complete discussion, see E. Standen, European Post-Medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. I, 1985, pp. 365-368.