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Lot Essay
FRANCOIS-ARMAND-AUGUSTE DE ROHAN
The coat-of-arms on this tapestry are those of François-Armand-Auguste de Rohan (1718-1756), second son of Louis-François-Jules, prince de Soubise, capitaine-lieutenant des gendarmes de la garde, and his wife Anne-Julie-Adélaide de Melun. He received membership to the Académie Française on 30 December 1741 and was named assistant to his great-uncle Armand-Gaston, Cardinal de Rohan, Bishop of Strasbourgh, on 21 March 1742. On 6 January 1745 he was made prélat commandeur of the Order of the Saint-Esprit and created Cardinal de Soubise on 10 April 1745. He died 28 June 1756, aged 38 at the Château de Saverne (E. Olivier, et al., Manuel de l'Amateur de Relieurs armoirées françaises, 1931, pl. 2033).
VINCENT BENDIX
Vincent Hugo Bendix (1881-1945) founded the Bendix Corporation in Chicago that produced the 'Motor Buggy' automobile in 1907. The company failed within 2 years but he invented several mechanical devices crucial to the early automobile industry and became a successful entrepreneur. He started the Bendix Aviation Corporation in 1929 but was forced out of the company in 1942 and subsequently the Bendix Helicopters, Inc. His inventions made him one of the wealthiest men of the United States.
DESIGN
This tapestry formed part of a rarely woven series depicting 'Stories of the Iliad' designed by Antoine and Charles Coypel but also Charles Hérault between 1717 and 1723. Only five subjects are recorded, omitting the offered lot, at Gobelins and indeed the series is only recorded as having been woven twice for the Royal Garde Meuble between 1718 and 1736 with the fleurs-de-lys as arms to the center of the top border. Only four tapestries from one and one from the other remain today. It is probable that the offered lot formed part of a weaving in the private atelier of the Gobelins weaver Dominique De La Croix (d. 1737). A further panel from this set depicting 'The Death of Achilles' was in the Ffoulke collection and later with French & Co, New York (C. Ffoulke, The Ffoulke Collection of Tapestries, New York, 1913, p. 274).
(M. Fenaille, Etat Général des Tapisseries de la Manufacture des Gobelins, Paris, 1904, vol. III, pp. 293-302.
The coat-of-arms on this tapestry are those of François-Armand-Auguste de Rohan (1718-1756), second son of Louis-François-Jules, prince de Soubise, capitaine-lieutenant des gendarmes de la garde, and his wife Anne-Julie-Adélaide de Melun. He received membership to the Académie Française on 30 December 1741 and was named assistant to his great-uncle Armand-Gaston, Cardinal de Rohan, Bishop of Strasbourgh, on 21 March 1742. On 6 January 1745 he was made prélat commandeur of the Order of the Saint-Esprit and created Cardinal de Soubise on 10 April 1745. He died 28 June 1756, aged 38 at the Château de Saverne (E. Olivier, et al., Manuel de l'Amateur de Relieurs armoirées françaises, 1931, pl. 2033).
VINCENT BENDIX
Vincent Hugo Bendix (1881-1945) founded the Bendix Corporation in Chicago that produced the 'Motor Buggy' automobile in 1907. The company failed within 2 years but he invented several mechanical devices crucial to the early automobile industry and became a successful entrepreneur. He started the Bendix Aviation Corporation in 1929 but was forced out of the company in 1942 and subsequently the Bendix Helicopters, Inc. His inventions made him one of the wealthiest men of the United States.
DESIGN
This tapestry formed part of a rarely woven series depicting 'Stories of the Iliad' designed by Antoine and Charles Coypel but also Charles Hérault between 1717 and 1723. Only five subjects are recorded, omitting the offered lot, at Gobelins and indeed the series is only recorded as having been woven twice for the Royal Garde Meuble between 1718 and 1736 with the fleurs-de-lys as arms to the center of the top border. Only four tapestries from one and one from the other remain today. It is probable that the offered lot formed part of a weaving in the private atelier of the Gobelins weaver Dominique De La Croix (d. 1737). A further panel from this set depicting 'The Death of Achilles' was in the Ffoulke collection and later with French & Co, New York (C. Ffoulke, The Ffoulke Collection of Tapestries, New York, 1913, p. 274).
(M. Fenaille, Etat Général des Tapisseries de la Manufacture des Gobelins, Paris, 1904, vol. III, pp. 293-302.