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Lot Essay
HISTORY OF THE DESIGN
The Portiéres series was designed by Charles Le Brun (d. 1690) while working for Nicolas Fouquet (d. 1680). The tapestries were first woven at Maincy, which mainly supplied tapestries to the finance minister's château de Vaux-le-Vicomte. After the fall from power of Fouquet in September 1661, the workshop was moved to the hôtel des Gobelins under Jean-Baptiste Colbert (d. 1683). The designs seem to have been translated to cartoons by Baudouin Yvart for Maincy in 1659 - 1660 and by François van der Meulen, Joseph Yvart and Pierre Mathieu at Gobelins thereafter.
WEAVINGS
The weaving of this series with the coat-of-arms of Albergotti is not officially recorded at Gobelins. Other versions to the same design exist include one that was sold anonymously, Sotheby's, New York, 22 May 2001, lot 92, and another from the property of Mrs. Walter Sharp, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 16 and 17 January 1959, lot 438.
FRANCOIS-ZENOBIE-PHILIPPE ALBERGOTTI (1654-1717)
Albergotti also known as Bardo di Bardi Magalotti, born in Florence but French, was maréchal des camps and des armées du Roy, member of the Order of Saint-Esprit and Governor of Valenciennes.
(M. Fenaille, Etat Général des Tapisseries de la Manufacture des Gobelins, Paris, 1903, vol. II, pp. 9 - 15; H. Göbel, Die Wandteppiche und ihre Manufakturen, in Frankreich Italian Spanien und Portugal, Leipzig, 1928, vol. I, pp. 120 - 121; C. Bremer-David, French Tapestries & Textiles in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 1997, pp. 4 - 8)
The Portiéres series was designed by Charles Le Brun (d. 1690) while working for Nicolas Fouquet (d. 1680). The tapestries were first woven at Maincy, which mainly supplied tapestries to the finance minister's château de Vaux-le-Vicomte. After the fall from power of Fouquet in September 1661, the workshop was moved to the hôtel des Gobelins under Jean-Baptiste Colbert (d. 1683). The designs seem to have been translated to cartoons by Baudouin Yvart for Maincy in 1659 - 1660 and by François van der Meulen, Joseph Yvart and Pierre Mathieu at Gobelins thereafter.
WEAVINGS
The weaving of this series with the coat-of-arms of Albergotti is not officially recorded at Gobelins. Other versions to the same design exist include one that was sold anonymously, Sotheby's, New York, 22 May 2001, lot 92, and another from the property of Mrs. Walter Sharp, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 16 and 17 January 1959, lot 438.
FRANCOIS-ZENOBIE-PHILIPPE ALBERGOTTI (1654-1717)
Albergotti also known as Bardo di Bardi Magalotti, born in Florence but French, was maréchal des camps and des armées du Roy, member of the Order of Saint-Esprit and Governor of Valenciennes.
(M. Fenaille, Etat Général des Tapisseries de la Manufacture des Gobelins, Paris, 1903, vol. II, pp. 9 - 15; H. Göbel, Die Wandteppiche und ihre Manufakturen, in Frankreich Italian Spanien und Portugal, Leipzig, 1928, vol. I, pp. 120 - 121; C. Bremer-David, French Tapestries & Textiles in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 1997, pp. 4 - 8)