IJO FRENCH TAPESTRIES
289. Tapestry, Le Mots de Decιmbre,
Le Chateau de Monceaux from
LesMaisons RoyalesSeries
Gobelins manufactory, before 1712
The cartoon painted by Fran$ois van
der Meulen, Baudrain Yvart le pere, Jean-
Baptiste Monnoyer, Pierre (Boulle) Boels,
Guillaume Anguier, Abraham Genoels after
designs by Charles Le Brun. Woven underthe direction of Jean de la Croix
Wool and silk
The lower right galon bears the woven sig
nature I.D.L. CROX.
Height: 10 ft. 4% in. (316 cm); Width:
10 ft. 9 in. (328 cm)
Accession number 85.DD.309PROVENANCE
Comte de Camondo, Paris (sold, Galerie
Georges Petit, Paris, February 1-3, 1893,
lot 291); Gaston Menier, Paris (sold, Galerie
Charpentier, Paris, November 22,1936,
lot in); Baron Gendebien-Salvay, Belgium;
[Vincent Laloux, Brussels].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Le Journal des arts, January 28,1893 (Paris);
Maurice Fenaille, Etat general de U Manu
facture des Gobelins, 1600-ipoo (Paris,
1903-1923), vol. 2, pp. 161-162; Charissa
Bremer-David, "Tapestry 'Le Chateau de
Monceaux' from the series Les Maisons
Royales" GettyMusJ 14 (1986), pp. 105-112,
figs. ia~b; "Acquisitions/1985," GettyMusJ
14 (1986), no. 192, pp. 242-243, illus.;
Jacqueline Boceara, Ames de Laine et de Sote
(Saint-Just-en-Chausιe, 1988), p. 207, illus.
p. 209; Edith Α. Standen, "The Jardνn des
Plantes: An Entrefenιtre for the Maisons
Royales Gobelins Tapestry Series," Bulletin
du Centre internationale d'etudes des textiles
anciennes(& (1990), p. 49; illus. p. 51, fig. 4;
Handbook 1991, p. 162, illus. p. 163.- Tapestry, Char de Triomphe
Gobelins manufactory, 1715-1716
Woven from the cartoon by Baudrain Yvart
le pere after a design by Charles Le Brun
Wool and silk
Part of the original backing bears the
inscription No. 194 Ports. Du CharJ 6: Sur 5:
au[ne], de haut/ 2: au[ne] 1/2 de Cours over
10-6 six pieces 8 $20. Woven with the arms
of France and Navarre.
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