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GOBELINS, SIGNED AND DATED 'COZETTE 1768', AFTER BERNAERT VAN ORLEY
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A LOUIS XV ALLEGORICAL TAPESTRY
GOBELINS, SIGNED AND DATED 'COZETTE 1768', AFTER BERNAERT VAN ORLEY
Woven in silks and wools, depicting November from The Months of Lucas with peasants sowing fields and with several figures seated in the foreground by a tree and the background with peasants plowing and in an open landscape, within wide simulated frame borders with floral bouquets and the French Royal three fleurs-de-lys in a winged cartouche to the top and with the Sagittarius Zodiac sign to the cartouche at the bottom, each side with Apollo's mask and the angles with interlaced 'L's, within blue outer guard borders, replaced to the top, signed to the lower right outer guard border
13 ft. 8 in. (416 cm.) high, 10 ft. (305 cm.) wide
GOBELINS, SIGNED AND DATED 'COZETTE 1768', AFTER BERNAERT VAN ORLEY
Woven in silks and wools, depicting November from The Months of Lucas with peasants sowing fields and with several figures seated in the foreground by a tree and the background with peasants plowing and in an open landscape, within wide simulated frame borders with floral bouquets and the French Royal three fleurs-de-lys in a winged cartouche to the top and with the Sagittarius Zodiac sign to the cartouche at the bottom, each side with Apollo's mask and the angles with interlaced 'L's, within blue outer guard borders, replaced to the top, signed to the lower right outer guard border
13 ft. 8 in. (416 cm.) high, 10 ft. (305 cm.) wide
Provenance
Probably a gift by Louis XV to Cardinal Charles de Lânces, archbishop of Turin and Grand Aumônier of the Prince of Turin, in 1771.
M.A. Roussel, sold Sotheby's, Monaco, 22 June 1986, lot 500.
with Bernard Blondeel, Antwerp and Paris.
M.A. Roussel, sold Sotheby's, Monaco, 22 June 1986, lot 500.
with Bernard Blondeel, Antwerp and Paris.
Literature
Probably M. Fenaille, Etat général des Tapisseries de la Manufacture des Gobelins, Paris, 1903, vol. II, pp. 361 - 362 or possibly p. 364.
Probably H. Göbel, Die Wandteppiche und ihre Manufakturen, Frankreich, Italien, Spanien und Portugal, Leipzig, 1928, vol. I, fig. 117, vol. II, p. 144.
Probably E.A. Standen, European Post-Medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985, vol. I, cat. 50, p. 333.
Probably P.-B. Bertrand, Les tapisseries des Barberini et la décoration d'intérieur dans la Rome baroque, Turnhout, 2005, p. 173.
Probably H. Göbel, Die Wandteppiche und ihre Manufakturen, Frankreich, Italien, Spanien und Portugal, Leipzig, 1928, vol. I, fig. 117, vol. II, p. 144.
Probably E.A. Standen, European Post-Medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985, vol. I, cat. 50, p. 333.
Probably P.-B. Bertrand, Les tapisseries des Barberini et la décoration d'intérieur dans la Rome baroque, Turnhout, 2005, p. 173.