of Art (New York, 1985), vol. 2, pp. 534-543;
Edith Standen, "The Amours des Dieux: A
Series of Beauvais Tapestries After Boucher,"
Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal19/20
(1986), pp. 63-84, illus. p. 69.- Tapestry, Chancellerie
Gobelins manufactory, circa 1728-1730
Woven by Etienne-Claude Le Blond after
designs by Guy-Louis Vernansal and Claude
Audran
Wool and silk
A fleur-de-lys and G' LE.' BLOND are
woven in lower right corner.
Height: 11 ft. 1 in. (338 cm); Width:
8 ft. 10 V 4 in. (270 cm)
Accession number 65 .DD.5
PROVENANCE
Woven for Germain-Louis Chauvelin,
marquis de Grosbois and Garde des Sceaux
(1685-1762); [(?) French and Co., New
York]; Mortimer L. Schiff, New York
(sold by his heir John L. Schiff, Christie s,
London, June 22,1938, lot 74); purchased
at that sale by J. Paul Getty.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Maurice Fenaille, Etat general des tapisseries
de h Manufacture des Gobelins (Paris, 1904),
vol. 3, p. 139; Heinrich Gφbel, Wandteppiche
(Leipzig, 1923), vol. 2, part 1, pp. 172-173;
Verlet et al., Chefs d'oeuvre, p. 133, illus.;
Edith Standen, "Portiere with the Chauvelin
Arms," European Post-Medieval Tapestries
and Hangings in the Metropolitan Museum
of Art (New York, 1985), vol. 1, pp. 361-364.
293- Tapestry, Portiere aux Armes de France
Gobelins manufactory, circa 1730-1743
Woven from a cartoon by Pierre-Josse Perrot,
under the direction of Etienne-Claude
Le Blond
Wool and silk
A fleur-de-lys, the letter G, and part of an L
[for Le Blond] are woven into the galon of
the lower right corner.
Height: 11 ft. 10 in. (355 cm); Width:
8 ft. 9 in. (262.5 cm)
Accession number 85 .DD.100
PROVENANCE
Richard, 4th Marquess of Hertford, Paris,
before 1870; by inheritance to Sir Richard
Wallace, Paris, before 1890; by inheritance
to Lady Wallace, Paris, 1890; by inheritance
to Sir John Murray Scott, Paris, 1897; Vic
toria, Lady Sackville, Paris, 1912; [M. and
Mme Jacques Seligmann, Paris (sold in the
late 1940s)]; [Francois-Gerard Seligmann,
Paris, 1953]; private collection; [Fra^ois-
Gιrard Seligmann, Paris, 1985].
EXHIBITIONS
Paris, Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts
Appliques δ l'Industrie, Musιe rιtrospectif
1865, no. 5734; Paris, Exposition d'artfrangais
duXVIIIe siecle, 1916, no. 113., p. 87, illus.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Maurice Fenaille, Etat general de la Manu
facture des Gobelins, 1600-1900 (Paris, 1903),
vol. 3, pp. 310-314; Heinrich Gφbel,
Wandteppiche (Leipzig, 1923), vol. 2, part 1,
p. 156; "Acquisitions/1985," GettyMusJ\4
(1986), no. 196, pp. 244-245, illus.; Hand
book 1991, p. 170, illus.; detail illus. p. 154.292172 FRENCH TAPESTRIES