CIRCA 1750 - 1767, BEAUVAIS, AFTER FRANCOIS BOUCHER

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A FRENCH MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY
CIRCA 1750 - 1767, BEAUVAIS, AFTER FRANCOIS BOUCHER
En suite with the preceding two lots, depicting Apollo and Clytie from the series The Loves of the Gods, with Apollo holding a lyre and Clytie before him, both in clouds, surmounted by putti and and with horses to the background, the left foreground with two nereids and a watery landscape, within a simulated giltwood frame border with foliate clasps to the angles, with folded-over blue outer guard border to the sides, lacking to top and bottom, inscribed in black ink '176.' to the left front corner, reduced in size with consequential cuts to the borders
10 ft. 8 in. (325 cm.) high; 10 ft. 4 in. (315 cm.) wide

Provenance

William K. Vanderbilt (d. 1920), New York and Newport, Rhode Island and by descent to his daughter
Mrs. Rosemary Gaynor (born Warburton, later Mrs. Hugh Chisolm), New York, until 1948.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

This subject was woven at least seven times between 1750 and 1772. It was also known as Apollon dans sa gloire and exists in the Minneapolis Museum of Arts and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, both with Royal arms.

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