Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum

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Carpets and Screens

280. Carpet
     Savonnerie manufactory, circa 1663
     Probably made in the workshops of
     Philippe Lourdet
     Wool and linen
     Length: 21 ft. uVs in. (669 cm); Width:
     14 ft. 5 in. (440 cm)
     Accession number 70 .DC. 63

PROVENANCE

Louis XIV, by 1667; Church of Saint-Andrι-

des-Arts, Paris, 1769; (?) Parguez-Perdreau,

Paris, March 1914; [Arnold Seligmann,

Paris, March-June 1914]; George A. Kessler,

June 1914; Mortimer L. Schiff, New York

(sold by his heir John L. Schiff, Christie's,

London, June 22,1938, lot 77); purchased at

that sale by J. Paul Getty.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Jules Guiffrey, Inventaire general du mobilier

de U couronne sous Louis XIV: Tapis (Paris,

1885-1886), (?) no. 18, p. 378; Verlet et al.,

Chefi d'oeuvre, pp. 134-135, illus.; Pierre

Verlet, The James A. de Rothschild Collection

at Waddesdon Manor: The Savonnerie (Fri-

bourg, 1982), p. 174; nn. 5,11, p. 421; Wilson,

Selections, no. 1, pp. 2-3, illus.

281. Carpet
     Savonnerie manufactory, before May 3,1680
     Woven under the direction of the Lourdet
     family after the design of Fran$ois Francart
     and Baudoin Yvart (lepereV) according to
     the scheme of Charles Le Brun
     Wool
     Length: 29 ft. 9% in. (908.6 cm); Width:
     15 ft. 7 in. (472.1 cm)
     Accession number 85.DC. 515

PROVENANCE

Delivered to the garde meuble on May 3,

1680, by "Veuve" Lourdet for Louis XIV,

Galerie du bord de l'eau, Louvre, Paris;

on loan to Pierre-Paul, marquis d'Ossun

(1713-1788), Ambassadeur Extraordinaire et

Plιnipotentiaire de France, 1759, from

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