- Tapestry, Le Cheval Rayé from the
Anciennes Indes Series
Gobelins manufactory, circa 1690-1730
After a cartoon by Albert Eckhout and
Frans Post, retouched by Jean-Baptiste
Monnoyer, Jean-Baptiste Belin [Belain or
Blin] de Fontenay, René-Antoine Houasse,
Fra^ois Bonnemer, and Alexandre-Fran£ois
Desportes
Wool and silk
Woven with the arms of the Camus de
Pontcarré de Viarmes de la Guibourgére
families.
Height: 10 ft. 10 in. (326 cm); Width:
18 ft. 10 in. (580.2 cm)
Accession number 92 .DD.21
PROVENANCE
(?) Jean-Baptiste-Elie Camus de Pontcarré,
seigneur de Viarmes (1702-1775), and his
wife Fran£oise-Louise Raoul de la Guibour-
gére; by descent to Louis-Jean-Népomucene-
Francois-Marie Camus de la Guibourgére
(1747-1794); by descent to Alexandre-
Prosper Camus de la Guibourgére (1793-
1853), Chateau de la Guibourgére, Bretagne;
[Bernard Blondeel, Antwerp, Belgium, 1991].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Acquisitions/1992," GettyMusJ 21 (1993),
in press, illus.
- Tapestry Carpet
(?) Beauvais manufactory, circa 1700-1725
Wool and silk
Length: 12 ft. 3 in. (371.5 cm); Width:
8 ft. ι in. (246.3 cm)
Accession number 86 .DC.633
PROVENANCE
(?) Sold, Hotel Drouot, Paris, May 27,1910,
one of four sold as lots 131-134; ([?] sold,
Christies, London, March 6,1923, lot 629,
as one of a pair); [(?) B. Fabre et Fils, Paris];
Thenadey collection, Paris; [Mayorcas, Ltd.,
London, 1985].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Acquisitions/1986," GettyMusJ'15 (1987),
no. 100, p. 211, illus.
288
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