French Tapestries and Textiles in the J. Paul Getty Museum

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Название: French Tapestries and Textiles

Издательство:J. Paul Getty Museum

Автор: Charissa Bremer-David

Год:1997

Количество страниц:202

Язык:English

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French Tapestries and Textiles is a survey of the Getty Museum’s seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French textiles—one of the world’s finest collections. Featuring twenty-five extraordinary tapestries woven at the Gobelins and Beauvais manufactories, the catalogue also highlights three carpets, two knotted-pile screens, and two sets of embroidered bed hangings, one of which is the only complete lit à la duchesse surviving from the period.

Among the magnificent textiles discussed in this lavish volume are the Emperor of China tapestry series, the whimsical Story of Don Quixote, and Boucher’s cycle The Story of Psyche. A gatefold in the book opens to reveal a photograph of the stately twenty-nine-foot carpet commissioned for Louis XIV’s Galerie du Bord de l’Eau at the Louvre, a piece never publicly displayed in this century.

Each entry includes a listing of artists and weavers, date and place of manufacture, and materials and techniques used, followed by a complete description and a condition statement. The accompanying commentary provides information on the literary, historical, and visual source of design imagery as well as the context of the textile’s commission and production. In addition, each textile shown has a complete provenance, exhibition history, and bibliography.

For lovers of French decorative arts and connoisseurs of textiles, this book offers a study both of the art of tapestry- and textile-making and of the aesthetic tradition exemplified by these remarkable objects.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Abbreviations

Gobelins Manufactory

Portière du Char de triomphe

Les Anciennes Indes: Le Cheval rayé

Les Maisons royales: Le Mois de décembre, Le Château de Monceaux

Chancellerie: Portière

Nouvelle Portière aux armes de France

Four Tapestries from L’Histoire de don Quichotte

Four Tapestries from Les Tentures de François Boucher

Beauvais Manufactory

Les Grotesques: L'Offrande à Bacchus

Six Tapestries from L'Histoire de Psyché

Les Amours des dieux: Arianne et Bacchus et Bacchus change en raisin

Savonnerie Manufactory

Carpet

Carpet for the Galerie du Bord de l'Eau, Palais du Louvre

Pair of Three-Panel Screens (Paravents)

Four-Panel Screen (Paravent)

Needlework Hangings

Pair of Embroidered Bed Hangings (Bonne-grâces)

Hangings for a Bed (Lit à la duchesse)

Index

About the Authors

Charissa Bremer-David is assistant curator in the Department of Decorative Arts at the Getty Museum and a coauthor of Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum.