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TAPESTRY, AUBUSSON - FELLETIN, AFTER 1680, FROM CARTOONS BY …
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TAPESTRY, AUBUSSON - FELLETIN, AFTER 1680, FROM CARTOONS BY …
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Estimate €4,000 - €6,000
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TAPESTRY, AUBUSSON - FELLETIN, AFTER 1680, FROM CARTOONS BY CHARLES LEBRUN (1619-1690), FOR THE HANGING OF THE STORY OF ALEXANDER
wool and silk; Alexander in front of the tent of Darius before the queens of Persia. Sysigambis, mother of Darius, who had mistaken Ephestion for Alexander, threw herself at his feet. Alexander said that Ephestion was someone else.
(Wear, reweaving, cut in the height and retreated, right border cut and retreated, reweaving in the upper part of the border)
TAPESTRY, AUBUSSON - FELLETIN, AFTER 1680, FROM THE CARTOONS OF CHARLES LEBRUN (1619-1690), FOR THE HANGING OF THE STORY OF ALEXANDER
27,82 x 361 CM - 11 x 142,1 IN.
Similar tapestries can be seen at the Royal Castle of Wavel in Krakow (Poland), the Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire and the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Niort.
Caisse Nationale des Monuments Historiques, Masterpieces of Tapestry from Henri IV to Louis XIV, pp. 221-223
Benoit-Henry Papounaud, La Tapisserie Française, p. 132, Pascal-François Bertrand, Les Tapisseries d'Aubusson et de Felletin, p. 81
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