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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN CORPORATE COLLECTION (LOTS 171-173)
The following two extremely richly executed tapestries may well, because of their unusually expensive nature and virtually identical height, not only belong to the same series but possibly even the same set. Isolated panels from this series remain in private collections and due to the repetition of the same subject indicate that there may have existed two sets woven to similar designs. The known tapestries include apart from the offered lots a panel depicting 'Daphne and attendants' sold from the collection of Mr. Jonas Carlson Kjellberg, Stockholm, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 16 March 1974, lot 90 and subsequently with Galerie Chevalier, Paris. A panel also depicting 'Apollo in pursuit of Daphne' but lacking the extensive landscape to the left and set in a differing landscape was formerly in the collection of Stanley Mortimer, sold Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 23 January 1943, lot 107 and then with Arturo Lopez-Willshaw, Paris before being sold from the collection of Luis M. Rinaldini, Argentina, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 10-11 November 1972, lot 264. A further panel depicting 'Apollo and Muses' but with differing designs for the muses and the landscape was with French & Co, while another depicting a satyr with a muse and a boy is in a European collection.
All six recorded panels are of essentially the same height (9ft. 7in. - 9ft. 10in.) and astonishingly all panels appear to be equally richly woven with gold and silver threads. Each tapestry is framed by the same borders. Interestingly a series depicting 'Mythological Scenes' after Laurent de la Hire (d. 1656) that was woven including the rich use of gold and silver thread in Paris in the Comans workshop in the 1650s-1670s also incorporated very similar floral and foliate borders with acanthus roundels in all four corners (E. Standen, 'Mythological Scenes: A Tapestry Series after Laurent de la Hire', Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 4, 1973, pp. 10 - 21). While the figures are reminiscent of those tapestries, the borders of the offered lots seem to represent a later weaving probably not in the Gobelins workshops. During the financial difficulties of the 1690s the Gobelins workshops had to close for a number of years and the weavers either opened their own private workshops or some joined existing official ateliers such as Beauvais. None of the known examples of this series appear to be signed. It is thus not possible, particularly with the lack of document evidence, to securely ascribe the series to a specific workshop. The rich use of gold and silver-thread does, however, suggests that the tapestries from this series were woven only on the basis of a specific commission as the costs for a speculative weaving would have been far too high.
A LOUIS XIV MYHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY
GOBELINS OR BEAUVAIS, LATE 17TH CENTURY
细节
A LOUIS XIV MYHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY
GOBELINS OR BEAUVAIS, LATE 17TH CENTURY
Woven in gold and silver metal threads, silks and wools, depicting 'Apollo in pursuit of Daphne' (respectively 'Apollo and Muses) from a series of 'The Story of Apollo', with Daphne and Apollo in a wooded landscape with cupid, river gods and nymphs either side, within a spiraly twisted and fruiting foliate border and later grey outer slip
9 ft. 10 in. x 17 ft. (300 cm. x 520 cm.)
GOBELINS OR BEAUVAIS, LATE 17TH CENTURY
Woven in gold and silver metal threads, silks and wools, depicting 'Apollo in pursuit of Daphne' (respectively 'Apollo and Muses) from a series of 'The Story of Apollo', with Daphne and Apollo in a wooded landscape with cupid, river gods and nymphs either side, within a spiraly twisted and fruiting foliate border and later grey outer slip
9 ft. 10 in. x 17 ft. (300 cm. x 520 cm.)
来源
Anonymous sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 31 January-1 February 1946, lot 527.
荣誉呈献
Gillian Ward
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