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拍品專文
THE SERIES
The offered lot belongs to a series that is first mentioned in 1680. The original seven subjects were subsequently expanded by a further fifteen panels, known as petite tenture, that were in part based on paintings paid for between 1704 and 1706 by such artists as Jean Baptiste de Fontenay, Louis de Boulogne, Nicolas Bertin, Antoine Coypel and Charles de la Fosse. These tapestries appear to have initially only been woven for private patrons and Gobelins only records the first official production of seven of these subjects for Louis XIV in 1714. The cartoons for the series are last mentioned in 1736 as ruined. It can thus be assumed that the series was woven between 1680 and 1736.
WEAVER
Numerous Gobelins weavers are known to have woven this series in their private workshops but possibly also in the official ateliers of the Gobelins for private patrons. An attribution is thus not possible without a signature on the tapestry.
(E. Standen, Ovid's Metamorphoses: A Gobelins Tapestry Series, Metropolitan Museum Journal, 1988, pp. 149 - 191)
The offered lot belongs to a series that is first mentioned in 1680. The original seven subjects were subsequently expanded by a further fifteen panels, known as petite tenture, that were in part based on paintings paid for between 1704 and 1706 by such artists as Jean Baptiste de Fontenay, Louis de Boulogne, Nicolas Bertin, Antoine Coypel and Charles de la Fosse. These tapestries appear to have initially only been woven for private patrons and Gobelins only records the first official production of seven of these subjects for Louis XIV in 1714. The cartoons for the series are last mentioned in 1736 as ruined. It can thus be assumed that the series was woven between 1680 and 1736.
WEAVER
Numerous Gobelins weavers are known to have woven this series in their private workshops but possibly also in the official ateliers of the Gobelins for private patrons. An attribution is thus not possible without a signature on the tapestry.
(E. Standen, Ovid's Metamorphoses: A Gobelins Tapestry Series, Metropolitan Museum Journal, 1988, pp. 149 - 191)