A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI AUBUSSON TAPESTRY PANELS

AFTER CLAUDE-JOSEPH VERNET

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI AUBUSSON TAPESTRY PANELS
After Claude-Joseph Vernet
Woven in wools and silks, one depicting a seated man wearing a turban and smoking a long pipe, with a child seated beside him, the left with a fisherman in his boat, the other with two men seated on barrels, both before a water landscape and with a large tree, within a later blue outer slip, the barrels inscribed 'SV N.2', 'IM E AP NO 7' and 'CF N.3.RO', reduced in size, reweaving and patching
One 7 ft. 3 in. x 4 ft. 5 in. (221 cm. x 104 cm.), the other 7 ft. x 4 ft. 8 in. (223 cm. x 113 cm.) (2)

Lot Essay

The illustrious Claude-Joseph Vernet (d. 1789) specialised in marine subjects. Through the Marquis de Marigny, brother of Mme de Pompadour, he received the commission to paint the ports of France for Louis XV, on which these subjects are based.

A tapestry from the same series, dated 1776, was sold anonymoulsy, Drouot Estimations, 7 November 1997, lot 160, while two further of the same set are illustrated in D. Boccara, Les Belles Heures de la Tapisserie, Milan, 1971, pp. 210-211.

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