circa 1769-1775; [(?) Jacques Seligmann,
Paris, 1926]; Mme Jorge Ortiz-Linares
(nιe Graziella Patino), Paris; by descent
to Georges Ortiz, Geneva.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Pierre Verlet, The James A. de Rothschild
Collection at Waddesdon Manor: The Savon-
nerie (Fribourg, 1982), p. 203; 72nd carpet p.
491; nn. 119, 123, p. 430; n. 143, p. 432;
n. 149, p. 433; and included as a line drawing
in a folding plan of the Galerie du bord
de l'eau; "Acquisitions/1985," GettyMusJi^
(1986), no. 187, p. 240, illus.
- Pair of Three-panel Screens
Savonnerie manufactory, woven between
1714 and 1740
Woven after designs by Jean-Baptiste Belin
[Belain or Blin] de Fontenay and Alexandre-
Fran$ois Desportes
Wool and linen; modern velvet backing;
wooden frame
Height: 8 ft. 11^3 4 in. (273.6 cm); Width:
6 ft. 4/8 in. (193.2 cm)
Accession number 83.DD.260.1-.2
PROVENANCE
(?) Mme d'Yvon, Paris (sold, Galerie
Georges Petit, Paris, May 30-June 4,1892,
lot 673); [Jacques Seligmann, Paris] (sold,
Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, March 9-12,
1914, lot 343); [Germain Seligmann, Paris,
1927]; [Fran$ois-Gerard Seligmann, Paris, by
i960] (sold, Sotheby's, Monaco, June 14-15,
1981, lot 54); [Dalva Brothers, Inc., New
York, 1981].
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EXHIBITIONS
Paris, Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins,
Tapis de L· Savonnerie, December 1926-
January 1927,^0. 96; Paris, Bibliothιque
Nationale, Le Siede de Louis XLV, February-
April 1927, no. 1268; Paris, Musιe des Arts
Dιcoratifs, Louis XLV: Faste et decors, May-
October i960, no. 774, pi. 52; Richmond,
Virginia, Experts' Choice: One Thousand
Years of the Art Trade, April 22-June 12,1983,
pp. 82-83, illus., lent by Dalva Brothers, Inc.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Pierre Verlet, The James A. de Rothschild
Collection at Waddesdon Manor: The
Savonnerie (Fribourg, 1982), p. 301; n. 82,
pp. 457-458; Wilson, "Acquisitions 1983,"
no. 2, pp. 180-183, illus.; "Acquisitions/
1983," GettyMusJ 12 (1984), no. 4, p. 262,
illus.; Handbook 1986, p. 150, illus. (one)
p. 151; Catherine Hamrick, "European
Folding Screens: Mirrors of an Enduring
Past," Southern Accents (April 1990), pp. 30,
32, 34, 38, 40, illus. p. 34; Handbook 1991,
p. 164, illus. (one), p. 165.
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