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French Aubusson Tapestry, 'Lady and Children Picking Up Fruits'
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
A fine Aubusson tapestry depicting a robed lady and several mischievous children bearing baskets of fruit, in a typically rural and architectural-themed landscape. A wide border on a...
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19th Century French Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Wool, Silk

18th Century “Verdure” Aubusson Tapestry
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
A luxurious 18th-century Aubusson tapestry, depicting a dog barking at fowl on a river, in a typically rural and architectural-themed landscape. Hand-woven in wool, in predominantly ...
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18th Century French Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Wool

Mid-18th Century French Handwoven Aubusson Verdure Tapestry with Gentleman
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Dallas, TX
This antique colorful tapestry was handwoven in Aubusson, France, circa 1760. Rectangular in shape, the colorful wall decor depicts a wooded landscape scene with a large, mature tree...
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Mid-18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Tapestry, Canvas

19th Century Aubusson Cardboard with Flower Basket Decor
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in BARSAC, FR
Painting on carton canvas from the 19th century in the Louis XVI style decorated with a flower basket in an oblong medallion made up of foliage and floral garlands. Project used as ...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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17th Century Mythological Aubusson Tapestry "The Rape of Proserpina"
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
17th century mythological Aubusson tapestry "The rape of Proserpina" and Cerberus Wool Measure: 200 x 210 cm circa 1660 Perfect condition Mythology: The first living visit...
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17th Century European Classical Greek Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Wool

Aubusson Tapestry "The Banquet of the Pacha", France, 19th Century
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful wool and silk tapestry representing a banquet of a Pasha. While the guests eat, servants bring the dishes and musicians entertain the assembly. Tapestries were used to richly decorate a house and keep the heat inside a room by diminishing the cold radiation of the stones. It could be quickly and easily disassembled to be transported to another house. From a millefleurs decor at the beginning of the art of tapestry, the weavers have managed to increase the woven surfaces allowing the narrative unfolding of a story (biblical, mythological or literary stories) through hangings, set of tapestries on the same subject. The origins of Aubusson tapestry still remain uncertain, although some attribute its invention to Saracens who settled on the banks of the Creuse after their defeat at Poitiers in 732, while others believe it to be the fact that Louis 1...
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19th Century French Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Wool, Silk

18th Century French Aubusson Tapestry in Painted and Gilt Frame
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Dallas, TX
This elegant and colorful framed tapestry was handwoven in Aubusson, France, circa 1760. The antique wall hanging piece features a courting scene with a young man charming a young beauty, and holding a bouquet of flowers within a draped flower...
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Mid-18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Tapestry, Giltwood

Tapestry Royal Manufacture of Aubusson, Louis XVI period 1738 at the Gobelins
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Madrid, ES
Tapestry from the Royal Manufacture of Aubusson, Louis XVI period , made in 1738 at the Gobelins One panel from a series of Gobelins tapestries depicting the History of Esther, illustrating Esther seated and attended by handmaidens, one washing her feet in golden basin, another fastening a bracelet, another offering a mirror, all observed by Mordecai, woven in the workshop of Michele Audran after a design by J. F. de Troy. The Toilet of Esther c.1778-85.Royal Collection Trust-Queens Audience Chamber Windsor Castle The Sketches for the Esther Cycle by Jean-François de Troy (1736) “and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mor’decai, ..., took for his own daughter.” (Est. 2:7) A supple and undulating genius, both a flattering portraitist and a prolix history painter, as well as a brilliant genre painter, in a gallant or worldly vein, Jean-François de Troy (Paris, 1679 – Rome, 1752), solicited, although he had passed the threshold of old age, a new royal commission up to his ambitions. To obtain it, he submitted – successfully - for the approval of the Bâtiments du roi (administration), seven modelli painted in 1736 with his usual alacrity. Inspired by one of the most novelistic texts of the Old Testament, the Book of Esther, these sketches in a rapid and virtuoso manner were transformed by the artist, between 1737 and 1740 into large cartoons intended to serve as models for the weavers of the Gobelins factory. Showing undeniable ease and skill in the composition in perfect harmony with the sensitivities of the times, the tapestry set met with great success. The Story of Esther perfectly corresponded to the plan of the Bâtiments du roi to renew the repertoire of tapestry models used for the weavers of the royal factories while it also conformed to the tastes of Louis XV’s subjects for a fantastical Orient, the set for a dramatic tale in which splendour, love and death were combined. Indeed, no tapestry set was woven in France during the 18th century as often as that of Esther. The series of modelli painted by de Troy during the year 1736 looks to the history of French painting and decoration under Louis XV as much as it does the history of the Gobelins. It probably counts among the most important rococo pictorial groups to have remained in private hands. First the Biblical source illustrated by De Troy which constitutes the base of one of the richest iconographical traditions of Western art will be considered. Then the circumstances and specific character of French civilisation during the reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XV which contributed to making the theme of Esther a relevant subject, both attractive to contemporaries and remarkably in line with the sensitivities of the time will be elucidated. An examination of the exceptional series of sketches united here, the cartoons and the tapestries that they anticipate as well as a study of their reception will close this essay. The Book of Esther: A scriptural source at the source of rich iconography. The origin of the Esther tapestry set by Jean-François de Troy – origin and creation of a masterpiece According to the evidence of one of the artist’s early biographers, the chevalier de Valory, author of a posthumous elegy of the master, read at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture on 6 February 1762, it was apparently due to early16 rivalry with François Lemoyne (1688-1737), his younger colleague who had precisely just been appointed First Painter to the King in 1736, that had encouraged François de Troy to seek a commission allowing him to show off his ease and his promptitude at the expense of a rival who was notoriously laborious: “M. De Troy, retaining some resentment of the kind of disadvantage which he believed to have suffered compared with his emulator looked to regain some territory by making use of the facility his rival did not possess. Lemoyne was excessively long in the creation of his works,and M. De Troy of a rare celerity: consequently, with this particular talent, the latter offered to the court to make paintings appropriate to be executed at the Gobelins Factory; and it is to this circumstance that we owe the beautiful series of the Story of Esther, which would be sufficient alone to give him a great reputation.”17 Beyond the suspicion inspired by the topos, which still constitutes, more or less, a tale of rivalries between artists in ancient literature, there is probably some truth in what Valory reports although A.-J. Dezalier d’Argenville (who indicates rather spitefully that de Troy did not hesitate to “cut prices” to impose himself, benefitting from the productivity assured by the unlikely rapidity of his brush)18 proves to be more evasive: “As he looked to busy himself, he had offered to make the paintings that serve as models for the King’s tapestries cheaply: which did not please his colleagues. He was given a choice of two tapestry series to be made and he took the Story of Esther and that of Jason”.19 Whether or not the choice was actually left to de Troy (which would appear rather casual on the royal administration’s part all the same), it seems likely that the artist, whose contemporaries extol his “fire”, as the faculty of invention was then called, must have ardently aspired to the possibility of using on a very large scale the “creative genius” with which Dezallier d’Argenville credits him. The decoration of the private apartments, the fashion for which Louis XV had promoted at Versailles and Fontainebleau, offered little opportunity to excel in this area. Other than painting for altarpieces, only tapestries could allow comparison with Lemoyne who had been granted – unfortunately for him – a major decoration: the enormous ceiling of the Hercules Room at Versailles. Favoured by the recent improvement in France’s financial situation, the revival of patronage offered de Troy a commission fitting for him, in a field in which, however, he had hardly any experience. Anxious to renew the repertoire of models available to the Gobelins factory, the Duc d’Antin, surintendant des Bâtiments du roi from 1708 to 1736 followed by his successor, Philibert Orry comte de Vignory, gave him the task of producing seven large cartoons inspired by the Book of Esther corresponding to the brilliant sketches or modelli which de Troy had produced in one go, or almost (very few preparatory drawings can in fact be linked to the Esther cycle and all seem to be at the execution stage of the cartoons).20 Subjected to the approval of the Administration des Bâtiments according to the procedure in use for projects being planned for the Gobelins, sketches made rapidly during 1736 were approved and the project launched immediately. Thereupon came the news of François Lemoyne’s death, who, ground down by work and a victim of his private torment, committed suicide on 4 June 1737. Against all expectations, de Troy did not replace his rival in the position of First Painter (which remained vacant until the appointment of Charles Coypel in January 1747), which would perhaps have made him too obviously the beneficiary of the drama. The awarding of the position of Director of the French Academy in Rome came to console him while he had already produced (or he was in the process of finishing), in Paris, three of the seven cartoons of the cycle (The Fainting of Esther finished in 1737 and the Toilet and Coronation of Esther, both finished in 1738). De Troy, we can see, did not follow the order of the narrative but began with the subjects which apparently offered the least difficulty because he had already depicted them, or because they fall into a strong pictorial tradition (such is the case especially for the Fainting of Esther). He had hardly settled at the Palazzo Mancini in August 1738, when his first task which awaited the new director of the French Academy naturally consisted of honouring the royal commission and finishing without delay the final cartoons of the Story of Esther after the sketches he must have taken with him. As prompt as ever, de Troy discharged himself of the execution of the four remaining cartoons in only two years, by beginning with the largest format which allowed him to strike the imagination and to impose himself as soon as he arrived on the Roman stage: the Triumph of Mor’decai which was finished in 1739 (like Esther’s Banquet). The following year, the Mor’decai's Disdain and The Sentencing of Haman were brought to an end in the same Neo-Venetian style, obviously tributary to Veronese with its choice of “open” monumental architecture which is characteristic of the entire cycle.21 The series, it should be noted, was almost augmented with some additional scenes in the mid 1740s. Indeed, the first tapestry set finished at the Gobelins in 1744 proved to be unsuitable for the arrangement of the Dauphine’s apartments at Versailles for which it had been intended to decorate the walls the following year (cf infra). Informed of this, de Troy, considering that the story of Esther offered “several good subjects,” immediately offered to illustrate one or new subject among those “which could appear to be the most interesting”. The directeur des Bâtiments Orry, who managed the State’s accounts, obviously judged it less costly to have one of the tapestries widened to fill in the end of the Dauphine’s bedroom,22 which has probably deprived us of very original compositions, because de Troy had already illustrated the most famous themes, those that benefitted from a strongly established iconographical tradition and from which it was not easy to deviate The Tapestry Set of the Story of Esther Placed on the tapestry looms of the Gobelins at the end of the 1730s in Michel Audran’s workshop, the cycle created by de Troy aroused true infatuation. The few hundred tapestries made between 1738 and 1797 – all in high-warp tapestry and woven in wool and silk except for four in low-warp made in Neilson’s workshop – show the impressive success of a tapestry set that was without any doubt the most frequently woven of the 18th century in France. 29 Only three cartoons had been delivered by de Troy in 1738 when the first tapestry set was begun by Audran under the expert eye of Jean-Baptiste Oudry to whom the Directeur général des bâtiments, Philibert Orry had assigned the (weekly) supervision of the weaving. During the summer of 1738, the piece of the Fainting of Esther, which Oudry judged to be admirable, was finished. During the winter of 1742, Oudry informed Orry that about two ells of the Triumph of Mor’decai had been made “with no faults”,that the Coronation of Esther was finished and that the Esther at her Toilet “a very gracious tapestry” was “a little over half” finished. Exhibited at Versailles in 1743, these two last pieces were admired by Louis XV and the Court. On 3 December 1744, the set of seven tapestries was finally delivered to the Garde Meuble. It was intended, the honour was not slight, to decorate the apartments of the Infanta Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain whose marriage to the young Dauphin Louis-Ferdinand had been fixed for the following year (it took place on 23 February 1745). Apparently it was thought that the theme of Esther the biblical heroine and wife of a foreign sovereign was appropriate for the apartments of the Spanish Dauphine. As early as the month of March, the architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel informed de Troy that her grand cabinet was decorated with the “Esther tapestry set” specifying however that “for lack of two small or one large piece, we have not been able to decorate the end of the room”. This difficulty led immediately to the Banquet episode being woven a second time in two parts (they were delivered to the Garde-Meuble on 30 December 1746) to garnish the panels on each side of the bed of the Dauphine who would hardly enjoy them (she died on 22 July 1746 and the decoration was installed for the new Dauphine Maria Josepha of Saxony). The appearance of the set’s remarkable border, which imitated a richly sculpted wooden frame, should be mentioned. Conceived in 1738 by the ornamentalist Pierre Josse-Perrot and used in the later weavings until 1768, it tended to reinforce the resolutely painterly appearance of the tapestry set which, in this regard, pushed the art of tapestry as far as its ultimate mimetic possibilities. With the exception of Mor’decai's Disdain which had been removed earlier, the “editio princeps” of the story of Esther (from then on in nine pieces) remained at Versailles until the Revolution. Of the eight surviving tapestries, four are at the chateau of Compiègne and four belong today to the Mobilier National. No less than seven tapestry sets reputed to be complete (one of them in fact only had six tapestries) would be produced officially at the Gobelins up to 1772. Literature: 1- The Œuvres mêlées of an emulator of Racine, the Abbé Augustin NADAL thus include an Esther. Divertissement spiritual which is exactly contemporary with Jean François de Troy’s cycle since it was performed in 1735 and published in Paris three years later. 2-Le Siècle de Louis XIV, 1751, 1785 ed., p. 96-97 for French ed. 3- Lemoyne and de Troy had been obliged to share the First Prize in the competition organised in 1727 between the most prominent history painters of the Académie Royale. 4- Mémoires…, pub. L. DUSSIEUX et al., 1854, II, p.265. 5-The fact that de Troy, at the risk of falling out with his colleagues, did not hesitate to make use of prices in order to convince the new directeur des Bâtiments Philibert Orry, is confirmed by Mariette who adds tersely “it caused much shouting” (pub. 1851-1860, II, p. 103). 6- Abrégé de la vie des plus fameux peintres…, ed. 1762, IV, p. 368-369 20 Early comments on the painter are inclined to present him as a kind of “pure painter”, doing without the medium of drawing, a few intermediary studies between the Esther sketches and the large cartoons at the Louvre nevertheless show that de Troy used red chalk (see in the catalogue, the notice for the Meal of Esther and Ahasuerus under the entry drawing) to change one or other figure. 7-C. GASTINEL-COURAL (cat. exp. PARIS, 1985, p. 9-13) as well as the article by J. VITTET, exh. cat. LA ROCHE-GUYON, 2001, p. 51-55. 8-The Hermitage in St. Petersburg conserves five tapestries of these two royal gifts whose provenance still awaits elucidation (as far as we are aware). In 1766, the Grand Marshal of Russia, Count Razumovski (or Razamowski), acquired the Fainting and the Banquet extracted from the sixth weaving (J. VITTET, 2001, p. 53). 9- Lettres écrites de Suisse, d’Italie…,quoted by J. VITTET, op. cit., p. 54. 10-The tapestry set remained in the hands of a branch of the Hapsburg-Lorraine family until 1933 (ibid. P. 54). 11-Quoted by Chr. LERIBAULT, 2002, p. 97, note 269. 12-Y. CANTAREL-BESSON, 1992, p. 241. Catalogue The Esther at her Toilet Oil on canvas, 57 x 51 cm Provenance: Painted in 1736 at the same time as the six other modelli of the Story of Esther intended to be presented, for approval, to the direction des Bâtiments du Roi; perhaps identifiable among a lot of sketches by Jean-François de Troy in the post mortem inventory of the amateur, historian and critic Claude-Henri Watelet (1718-1786) drawn up on 13 January 1786 and following days (A.N. T 978, n° 30) then in the sale of the property of the deceased, Paris, 12 June 1786, n° 33; Paris, François Marcille Collection (who owned a series of six sketches from which the Triumph of Mor’decai was missing, see infra); Paris, Marcille Sale, Hôtel Drouot, 12-13 January 1857, n° 36; Asnières, Mme de Chavanne de Palmassy ( ?) collection; Paris, Galerie Cailleux; Paris, Humbert de Wendel collection (acquired from the Galerie Cailleux in 1928); by inheritance in the same family; Paris, Sotheby’s, 23 June 2011, n° 61. In order not to add unnecessarily to the technical commentary on each work, the catalogue raisonné by Chr. Leribault which contains a substantial bibliography on the series should be referred to. The other bibliographical references only concern the publications and exhibitions to have appeared and been presented more recently. Bibliography and Exhibitions: Chr. LERIBAULT, 2002, n° P. 247 (repr.); E. LIMARDO DATURI, 2004, p. 28; Exh. cat. NANTES, 2011, p. 138, n° 34, referred to in note 1; Sotheby’s catalogue, Tableaux anciens et du XIXe siècle, 23 June 2011, n° 61 (repr.). Related Works: Tapestry cartoon: The cartoon (oil on canvas, 329 x 320 cm), the third made by the artist in Paris after the sketches had been approved by the direction des Bâtiments, is in the Louvre (Inv. 8315). It previously bore the painter’s signature and the date 1738 (inscriptions which are found on the tapestries). The royal administration paid 1600 livres for it on 21 June 1738 and it was exhibited at the Salon in the year of its creation. Summary Biography 1679 (27 January): Baptism in Paris (Parish of St. Nicolas du Chardonnet) of Jean-François de Troy, son of the painter François de Troy and Jeanne Cotelle, sister of the painter Jean II Cotelle. 1696-1698: Studies (apparently rather turbulent) at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. 1698-1708: First trip to Italy. Is obliged to leave Rome in January 1711 after a tempestuous affair (a duel?), de Troy extends the traditional Roman experience as a pensionnaire at the Académie de France by also visiting Tuscany where he stays for a long time, Venice (his art in face has a strongly Venetian character) and Genoa. 1708: De Troy (whose father had been elected Director of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture on 7 July) is agréé and immediately received at the Académie with Apollo and Diana Piercing with their Arrows the Children of Niobe (Montpellier, Musée Fabre) on 28 July. 1710: First royal commission, paid for on 10 May (a sketch representing “the Promotion of the Order of the Holy Spirit” for the tapestry series of the History of the King). 1716: Jean-François de Troy is elected Assistant Professor at the Academy. 1720: He is appointed Professor. 1723: The artist creates the double portrait of Louis XV...
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Early 18th Century French Baroque Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Silk, Wool

Mid-18th Century French Aubusson Pastoral Tapestry in the Manner of J. B. Huet
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Dallas, TX
Make a statement in your home with this exquisite and important antique Aubusson tapestry. Created in France, circa 1740 in the style of Jean Baptiste Huet, the subject manner, set i...
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Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Tapestry, Canvas

Antique Aubusson Tapestry Pillows with Rooster and Roses French Provincial
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Antique French provincial Aubusson tapestries made into decorative pillows. Large pair of French Aubusson pillows with a rustic design featuring a rooster in a field with a garland ...
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Mid-20th Century French French Provincial Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Textile

19th Century French Hand Woven Aubusson Tapestry with Noble Hunting Party Scene
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a wall or a staircase with this elegant and colorful antique hunt tapestry with original border. Handwoven in Aubusson, France circa 1880, the r...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Tapestry, Canvas

Aubusson - Vintage Silk & Wool Floral Tapestry - Signed - France - 20th Century
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Chatham, ON
Aubusson - Vintage silk and wool floral tapestry - mounted to the original stretcher along the edges - unframed - signed lower right - France - early/mid 20th century. Good vintag...
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Early 20th Century French Art Deco Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Wool, Silk

17th Century Tapestry with Landscape Aubusson Manufacture
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Milan, IT
Aubusson, 17th century Tapestry with landscape Silk, 410 x 280 cm The first documents relating to the origin of weaving date back to the year 2000 BC. approximately and are represented by wall paintings of Egyptian...
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17th Century French Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Silk

Vintage Aubusson Floral Tapestry Panel, Wool & Silk, France, Mid 20th Century
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Chatham, ON
Vintage Aubusson floral tapestry panel - hand woven with silk threads for the flowers and leaves and stems - set against a variegated brown wool background - suitable 'as is' for han...
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Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Wool, Silk

Early 19th Century French Wall Hanging Handwoven Aubusson Tapestry
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Dallas, TX
This colorful, antique tapestry was hand woven in Aubusson, France, circa 1820. The wall hanging piece depicts a woman feeding a bowl of soup to a youngster; the art work is embellis...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Tapestry

Pair of Antique Late 17th C. French Aubusson Tapestry Portière Border Panels
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in New York, NY
Called portière, these antique wall hanging tapestries were handwoven in Aubusson, France in the late 17th Century (c 1680s). They both feature floral and foliage decor in a beige palette. Portière tapestries were traditionally used in French chateaux and palaces in past centuries, they are unique in that they are designed to fill narrow wall spaces. A portière is a hanging curtain...
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1680s French Aubusson Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Wool

19th Century French Hand Woven Aubusson Verdure Tapestry with Bird and Foliage
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in New York, NY
Place this long and narrow antique tapestry in a staircase or in between two windows for a pop of color. Handwoven in Aubusson, France, circa 1860, this gorgeous verdure wall piece h...
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Mid-19th Century French French Provincial Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Tapestry, Wool

Light Blue 19th Century Floral French Aubusson Portière Decorative Tapestry
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in New York, NY
Called portière, these antique wall hanging tapestries were handwoven in Aubusson, France in the 19th Century. They both feature floral and foliage decor in a deep red and beige palette. Portière tapestries were traditionally used in French chateaux and palaces in past centuries, they are unique in that they are designed to fill narrow wall spaces. A portière is a hanging curtain...
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1850s French Aubusson Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Wool

Pair of 19th Century Floral French Aubusson Portière Decorative Tapestry
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in New York, NY
Called portière, these antique wall hanging tapestries were handwoven in Aubusson, France in the 19th Century. They both feature floral and foliage decor in a deep red and beige palette. Portière tapestries were traditionally used in French chateaux and palaces in past centuries, they are unique in that they are designed to fill narrow wall spaces. A portière is a hanging curtain...
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1850s French Aubusson Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Wool

Round Circular Mid 19th C. Ivory Beige Floral French Aubusson Tapestry Rug
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in New York, NY
This is a lovely antique 19th century ivory and Beige Round Floral French Aubusson rug from the 1850s and handwoven in France. It is in excellent condition given its age and measures...
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1850s French Aubusson Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Wool

Antique 19th Century French Aubusson Rococo Tapestry
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in New York, NY
This is a lovely antique 19th century square French Aubusson tapestry depicting a on a beautiful spring day in the countryside with lush trees and vegetation with a woman on a swing and her husband and two children beside her. It is a lovely silk and wool tapestry with in the classic Rocco style...
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19th Century French Rococo Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Wool, Silk, Tapestry

Antique 19th Century Square French Aubusson Hunting Tapestry
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in New York, NY
This is a lovely antique 19th Century Square French Aubusson Tapestry depicting a Hunting Scene on a beautiful summer day in the countryside with lush trees and vegetation. We see th...
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19th Century French Aubusson Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Wool, Tapestry

Handwoven Vintage French Aubusson Rug or Tapestry
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Miami, FL
This colorful handmade rug was woven in Aubusson, France in the early 20th century. The rug depicts a traditional Aubusson style with floral motifs which began and are often seen in ...
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20th Century French Rococo Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Textile

Louis XVI Tapestry at Cost Price
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Saint-Ouen (PARIS), FR
Old tapestry Louis XVI, by Aubusson. France, late 18th century.
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18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Tapestry

Xixth Century Ancient Tapestry "Harvest Scene", Wool, Aubusson France
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
Aubusson tapestry Title: "Harvest scene" Dimensions: 200 x 244 cm XIXth century Aubusson, France Perfect condition.
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Early 19th Century French Romantic Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Wool, Silk

18th Century French Handwoven Pastoral Verdure Aubusson Tapestry
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Dallas, TX
This large and elegant antique tapestry was crafted in Aubusson, France, circa 1760. The colorful wall piece features a country garden scene with goats, architectural elements and a ...
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Mid-18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Tapestry

18th Century French Aubusson Tapestry Gouache on Paper with Frame and Glass
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a wall with this colorful, antique Aubusson drawing cartoon. Created in the city of Aubusson, France circa 1780 and set in a carved frame with gilt trim and protected with g...
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Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Giltwood, Paper

18th Century French Aubusson Pastoral Tapestry in the Manner of Boucher
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Dallas, TX
Make a statement in your home with this large antique tapestry from France. Handwoven in Aubusson in the style of Boucher, circa 1750, thi...
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Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Tapestry

Beginning of 19th Cent. Exceptional Group of 5 Aubusson Tapestries "Seasons"
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
Exceptional group of 5 Aubusson tapestries Period: Beginning of 19th century Year: circa 1810-1820 Subject: seasons Material: Wool and silk with wooden frame Dimensi...
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19th Century French Aubusson Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Wool, Silk

18th Century French Handwoven Aubusson Verdure Tapestry with Fishermen
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Dallas, TX
This elegant and large antique tapestry was woven in the town of Aubusson, France, circa 1760. The rectangular landscape scene depicts fishermen...
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Mid-18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Tapestry

18th Century French Handwoven Aubusson Tapestry, The "Colin-Maillard" Game
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Dallas, TX
This large, antique tapestry was woven in Aubusson, France, circa 1760. The colorful scene depicts a group of people playing the game "Colin-Maillard", or Blind Man's Buff, a very po...
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Mid-18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Tapestry

Aubusson Tapestry "The Banquet of Cleopatra", France, 18th Century
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in PARIS, FR
Important tapestry illustrating the Banquet of Cleopatra, from the series of «The Story of Mark Antony and Cleopatra». Cleopatra and Mark Anto...
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18th Century French Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Wool, Silk

19th Century Aubusson Tapestry Decorated with Gallant Scene - N° 943
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
19th century Aubusson tapestry decorated with a gallant scene (Italian festivals, also say Italian village festivals).
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1850s French Aubusson Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Tapestry

19th Century French Aubusson Floral Tapestry Gouache on Paper in Gilt Frame
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a bedroom wall with this colorful, antique Aubusson drawing cartoon. Created in the city of Aubusson, France circa 1820, the simple and elegant gouache on paper is hand pain...
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Early 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Giltwood, Paper

18th Century French Aubusson Cartoon Gouache on Paper in Gilt Frame with Glass
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a living room wall or study with this elegant and colorful, antique Aubusson drawing cartoon. Created in the city of Aubusson, France circa 1760 and is set in a gilt frame, ...
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Mid-18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Giltwood, Paper

19th Century French Aubusson Tapestry Gouache on Paper in Carved Gilt Frame
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a bedroom wall with this colorful, antique Aubusson drawing cartoon. Created in the city of Aubusson, France circa 1820 and set in a carved gilt frame, the simple and elegan...
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Early 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Giltwood, Paper

Manufacture Robert Four, Printed Tapestry after a 16th Century Tapestry
By Aubusson Manufacture, atelier robert four
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Manufacture Robert Four. "Baillée of the roses" silkscreen printed tapestry on woven wool after a 16th century tapestry.
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1950s French Renaissance Vintage Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Wool

18th Century French Wool and Silk Aubusson Tapestry and Engraving, circa 1750
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Milano, IT
La Jeunesse (Youth) Tapestry Polychrome wool and silk France, Aubusson, circa 1750 It measures 107.08 in height x 104.33 in (272 cm height x 265 cm). State of conservation: goo...
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Mid-18th Century French Rococo Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Tapestry, Wool, Silk

Pair of French 19 Century Aubusson Floral Tapestry Entre Fenetres
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A pair of French Aubusson tapestries woven in the mid-19th century. Originally intended to hang between windows in a formal French salon, but today could be hung on walls anywhere. W...
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Mid-19th Century French Louis XV Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Wool

882 - Beauvais Tapestry, The Tom-Tom Players, 18th Century
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
Exceptional tapestry from the Royal Manufacture of Beauvais of the 18th century. Representation of a woman carrying a wheat crown around her head and playing drums in the garden of a...
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1720s French Aubusson Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Tapestry, Wool

Aubusson Tapestry Depicting a Pastoral Scene, French, circa 1900
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
An Aubusson tapestry depicting a pastoral scene. The tapestry depicts a pastoral scene of a young couple fishing by the side of a stream with a bridge and rural buildings in the m...
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Early 20th Century French Louis XV Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Tapestry

18th Century French Aubusson Tapestry in Antique Painted Leaf Decor Frame
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Dallas, TX
Bring beautiful color to your home with this unique, antique Aubusson tapestry. Woven in France, circa 1760, the elegant tapestry features a young woman holding a torch with verdure ...
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Mid-18th Century French Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Tapestry, Wood

French Aubusson Tapestry Depicting the Coronation of a King, circa 1600
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Dallas, TX
This Aubusson tapestry depicts the coronation a King, kneeling before a section of layered drapery. He is dressed in a Royal robe decorated with the fleur-d...
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Early 17th Century French Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Wool

Aubusson & Leleu, "Jardin à la Française", monumental tapestry, France, 1957
By Leleu Decorateurs, Aubusson Manufacture
Located in New York, NY
A monumental Aubusson tapestry. Designed for the Villa Médy Roc in Cap d’Antibes (South of France), for which Maison Leleu was chosen to provide new furniture, lighting, and carpets...
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1950s French Vintage Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Wool

Aubusson Tapestry, 18th Century
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Authentic Aubusson tapestry Dianne Chasseresse 18th century Wool and silk Slightly restored Lined and dry cleaned by professional tape...
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Mid-18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Wool, Silk

19th Century French Napoleon III Aubusson Rug in Clay, Blue, Green, and Pink
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Dallas, TX
French 19th century large Aubusson rug from the Napoleon III period. This Aubusson is handwoven and has a beautiful color range, consisting of a cla...
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19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Wool

18th Century Aubusson Tapestry signed “De Landrieve” & M R D”Aubusson”
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in New Orleans, LA
This grand French Aubusson Verdure Tapestry dates back to the 18th century and features an exotic landscape with mythical animals. A long legged bird forages amidst exotic blossoming...
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Mid-18th Century French Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Tapestry

17th Century French Aubusson - The Forging of the Arms of Achilles
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Dallas, TX
This tapestry from the mid to late 1600’s depicts the Forging of the Arms of Achilles. The figure on the right, Thetis, mother of Achilles, has commissioned armor for him to use in the Trojan War. Kneeling down with the helmet of Achilles in hand, is Hephasteus, God of fire, metal working, masonry, and blacksmiths. This piece was manufactured by Aubusson around 1670, based on the design by Issac Moillon (Painter of the King). Another tapestry like this can currently be seen in the Hospices of Beaune (Nicole de Reynie`s. Sylvain Laveissie`re. "Isaac Moillon (1614-1673), un peintre du roi a` Aubusson". Somogy, 2005, p. 158 a` 180.) A photo can be seen on the French Ministry of Culture website. Some fragments have been slipped in which are not perfect to the area’s scene, but, were perhaps part of the rest of this tapestry which was too damaged to use. The tapestry weavers who wove the faces, hands, feet and bodies of the people in tapestries were at the top in terms of skills. This weaver was superb in the depiction of all of the people. Note the delicacy of the hands of Thetis. For those who appreciate the truly old and beautiful without requiring perfect condition will cherish this 345 year old textile...
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17th Century French Antique Aubusson Manufacture Wall Decorations

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Textile

Aubusson Manufacture wall decorations for sale on 1stDibs.

Aubusson Manufacture wall decorations are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of fabric and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Aubusson Manufacture wall decorations, although brown editions of this piece are particularly popular. Many of the original wall decorations by Aubusson Manufacture were created in the Louis XVI style in europe during the 18th century and earlier. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider wall decorations by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, and Francois Nicolas Martinet. Prices for Aubusson Manufacture wall decorations can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at £449 and can go as high as £99,778, while a piece like these, on average, fetch £12,561.

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