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Material: Silk
Tone on Tone Geometric Rug
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Tone on tone Geometric rug Colors: Gold, cream, ivory, beige. Gray, taupe.
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21st Century and Contemporary Nepalese Silk Rugs and Carpets

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Wool, Silk

Luxurious Silk Rug with Grey Crocodile Skin Design by Doris Leslie Blau
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary Silk Rug with Grey Crocodile Skin Design by Doris Leslie Blau Size: 6'0" × 9'0" (182 × 274 cm) A fine hand-knotted silk rug with modern crocodile skin design, in shades ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Silk Rugs and Carpets

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Silk

Hand-Knotted Antique Persian Rug in Beige-Brown Floral Pattern by Rug & Kilim
Located in Long Island City, NY
Originating circa 1920-1930, this 5x8 antique Persian rug enjoys a luxurious all over floral pattern in deep hues of blue and brown for an added dimension of depth. Further to its ra...
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1920s Persian Kashan Vintage Silk Rugs and Carpets

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Silk

Rug & Kilim’s Khotan style rug in Gold and Beige-Brown Geometric Patterns
Located in Long Island City, NY
Handknotted in luxurious silk, this 6x9 rug from our Modern Classics collection is particularly inspired by antique Khotan-Samarkand rugs. On the Design: The gracious scale enjoys ...
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2010s Indian Khotan Silk Rugs and Carpets

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Silk

Rug & Kilim's Hand-Knotted Abstract Rug in Blue, Beige-Brown Pattern
Located in Long Island City, NY
Hand-knotted in finely woven wool & silk, a 3x5 abstract rug from Rug & Kilim’s contemporary selections. The marriage of neutrals and cool blue sheen tones plays beautifully with the...
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2010s Indian Modern Silk Rugs and Carpets

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Wool, Silk

Bobyrug’s Antique Distressed Indian Bayadir Shawl
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Beautiful 19th century Kashmir bayadir shawl with nice design and beautiful natural colors, entirely hand embroidered with wool and silk on wool foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experience the epit...
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19th Century Asian Agra Antique Silk Rugs and Carpets

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Wool, Silk

Bobyrug’s Beautiful Antique French Aubusson Tapestry
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Nice early 20th century French Aubusson tapestry with beautiful design of country scene and beautiful colors, entirely hand woven with wool an...
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Early 20th Century French Aubusson Silk Rugs and Carpets

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Wool, Cotton, Silk

Bobyrug’s Nice Vintage Turkish Silk Kayseri Rug
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Pretty mid-century silk Turkish rug from Kayseri, with beautiful mihrab design and nice light and faded colors, entirely hand knotted with silk velvet on cotton foundation. ✨✨✨ "Exp...
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Mid-20th Century Turkish Tabriz Silk Rugs and Carpets

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Silk, Cotton

Lumbar Pillow Case Made from an Early 20th C. Suzani, 1920s
Located in Istanbul, TR
It does not come with an insert but a bag made to the size to accommodate insert materials. Linen in the back. Zipper closure. Dry Clean only.
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Early 20th Century Uzbek Suzani Silk Rugs and Carpets

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Silk

Rug & Kilim’s 17th-Century Classic Style Runner in Gold, Pink & Blue Medallions
Located in Long Island City, NY
Hand-knotted in fine quality wool & silk, a gorgeous 3x11 runner inspired by 17th century Indian designs. New to our Modern Classics collection, the design depicts an elaborate classic design in indigo, blue, gold, pink and green addressing the ornate medallions for a vibrant pop of color. Connoisseurs will note a mild high-low texture achieved by a comfortable, meticulous wash, achieving this radiance and grandfathered look alike...
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2010s Indian Silk Rugs and Carpets

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Wool, Silk

Qum Rug
Located in New York, NY
Various birds flutter among the stems, branches, flowers and foliage of the swaying composite trees on the sand ground of this finely woven, recent city piece. The trees grow from lo...
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1970s Persian Vintage Silk Rugs and Carpets

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Silk

Pillow Cases Fashioned from an Afghan Waziri Shawl, Early 20th Century
Located in Istanbul, TR
Only 1 piece left. The pillow cases were made from an early 20th century Afghan Waziri, silk and cotton shawl. The red parts are in silk. They do not come with inserts but it come w...
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Early 20th Century Afghan Tribal Silk Rugs and Carpets

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Silk

Antique Chinese Embroidery Tapestry
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Beautiful antique embroidery from China late 19th century with very nice Chinese design with birds, flowers and personages, and beautiful purple color silk foundation, entirely hand ...
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Late 19th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Antique Silk Rugs and Carpets

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Silk

Vintage Persian Tabriz Mahi Rug
Located in Gainesville, VA
A stunning Vintage Persian Tabriz Mahi Rug that originates from Iran in the mid-20th century. This rug is in excellent condition considering its rich history and is made from a combi...
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Mid-20th Century Persian Tabriz Silk Rugs and Carpets

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Wool, Cotton, Silk

Wonderland a Hand Tufted Modern Rug In Botanical Silk & Wool by Hands
Located in New Delhi, IN
Opposites. Since the dawn of time, they have existed in harmony - dark and light, joy and sorrow, strength and vulnerability. Where one ends, the other begins. Distinct entities tha...
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Silk Rugs and Carpets

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Wool, Silk

Marblore a Hand Tufted Modern Rug In Botanical Silk & Wool by Hands
Located in New Delhi, IN
Opposites. Since the dawn of time, they have existed in harmony - dark and light, joy and sorrow, strength and vulnerability. Where one ends, the other begins. Distinct entities tha...
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Silk Rugs and Carpets

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Wool, Silk

Chimera Hand Tufted Modern Silk Rug in Rust Beige & Blue Grey Colours by Hands
Located in New Delhi, IN
In circa 100,000 B.C. Africa, an early human makes a marking on a rock with ground red ochre, which goes on to become the first human artistic representation in documented history. T...
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Silk Rugs and Carpets

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Silk

Adrift Hand Tufted Modern Silk & Wool Rug in Rust, Gold & Teal Colours by Hands
Located in New Delhi, IN
In circa 100,000 B.C. Africa, an early human makes a marking on a rock with ground red ochre, which goes on to become the first human artistic representation in documented history. T...
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Silk Rugs and Carpets

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Wool, Silk

Pure Silk Hereke Ozipek Turkish Rug Signed
Located in Lohr, Bavaria, DE
Very fine Turkish pure silk Hereke prayer rug from the famous Ozipek workshop. Hereke silk carpet Özipek rug Turkey  3.3 x 2.5 ft 100 x 76 cm Rare fine Hereke silk carpet, hand-knotted 1 million knots per m² / 654 kpsi. Design: Hereke Silk Medallion Material: Silk 100% Production method: Hand-knotted Length: 3.3 ft / 100 cm plus short kilim edge and fringes Width: 2.5 ft / 76 cm Shape: Rectangular Colors: brown-red, gold, beige, black Pile height: approx. 2 – 3 mm Knot density: per m² 1,000,000, kpsi 654 inch² A+ export quality Condition: Unused Made in Hereke, Türkiye by the Özipek workshop Usage: Tapestry, Floor Carpet Sustainable: Yes, from natural products Cleaning: vacuuming, otherwise only carpet cleaning by a specialist company Carpet stop: Generally recommended on smooth surfaces Underfloor heating: Yes, suitable Fair Trade: Yes, Label Step Fair Trade Carpets, no child labor, ecologically compatible production. We are Label Step Fair Trade Partners. Hereke silk carpets have always been among the exquisite works of art in carpet production. Its origins go back to the Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecid I, who founded the Hereke Imperial Manufactory in 1841 to produce all the textiles for his Dolmabahçe Palace on the Bosphorus. Due to the friendship between the German Empire and the Ottoman Empire, there were plenty of contacts between the oriental art of weaving and European customers. As is well known, a particularly great admirer of Hereke carpets was Kaiser Wilhelm II, who brought an impressive collection of exquisite carpets from Hereke with him in 1894. In the 20th century Hereke has developed into the most important production site for exquisite silk carpets. Floral carpets and prayer rugs in sizes 90 x 60 cm, 120 x 80 cm, 150 x 100 cm and 200 x 130 cm are common. Larger carpets are also available, but due to their high price these are much rarer. Simple qualities in wool on cotton warp start with a knot density of approx. 300,000 knots per m², particularly fine pieces reach fineness of over 4,000,000 knots per m². A floral drawing or floral repeat is typical. Well-known weaving masters or manufacturers are Ozipek, Derin, Han Hali. Turkish Hereke silk rugs are the most exclusive and highly priced rugs of all silk rugs...
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20th Century Turkish Islamic Silk Rugs and Carpets

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Silk

Persian Silk Heriz Carpet, circa 1870
Located in Port Washington, NY
Antique Heriz wool carpets are renowned for their crisp, abstract geometric interpretation of classical Persian rug design. Heriz carpets woven in silk, however, are quite distinct a...
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Late 19th Century Persian Antique Silk Rugs and Carpets

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Silk

Contemporary Silver Purple Natural Silk Hand-Knotted Rug in Stock
Located in New York, NY
The Rumi collection master weavers artfully re-spin and hand-knot the finest remnants of sustainable sari-silk to create the breakthrough Rumi silk collection. These remarkable patte...
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2010s Indian Organic Modern Silk Rugs and Carpets

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Silk

Rare Finely Woven Persian Silk Qum, Handmade Oriental Rug, Gold and Black
Located in Port Washington, NY
Extremely fine woven Persian silk carpet have silk pile on silk foundation. Approximately 750-800 knots per square inch. Qum weavers are also known for producing prayer rugs with elegant tree of life designs, as well as compartment designs derived from classical Persian garden carpets...
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Late 20th Century Persian Silk Rugs and Carpets

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Silk

handmade Silk Hereke Rug, Turkey, 20th Century
Located in London, GB
Exquisite design and quality workmanship silk Hereke rug - a true masterpiece that will elevate the decor of any space. This rug has been hand-knotted with great care and precision t...
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20th Century Turkish Silk Rugs and Carpets

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Silk

Vintage Silk Qum Rug - 19th Century Silk Qum Rug, Antique Rug, Vintage Rug
Located in Sultanahmet, 34
19th Century Silk Qum Rug This magnificent 19th-century antique Qum (Gohm) rug offers not just decor, but a slice of history. Every intricate detail woven into this masterpiece tell...
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19th Century Asian Antique Silk Rugs and Carpets

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Silk

Silk Densely Embroidered Suzani from Tashkent Uzbekistan, 1930s
Located in Istanbul, TR
This is a large, early 20th C. All over embroidered (including the negative space) suzani that has been used as a wall hanging from Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
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Early 20th Century Uzbek Suzani Silk Rugs and Carpets

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Silk

Antique Persian Kashan Rug with Medallion and Floral Patterns, from Rug & Kilim
Located in Long Island City, NY
Hand-knotted in silk circa 1920, this item is a rare 3x5 antique Persian Kashan rug among Rug & Kilim’s latest acquisitions in Oriental rugs. On the Design: This piece enjoys a pla...
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1650s Persian Antique Silk Rugs and Carpets

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Silk

Pure Silk Vintage Herekhe Accent Rug
Located in London, GB
Anatolia, the western region of Turkey, has a long-standing rug-weaving tradition, dating at least as far back as the 13th Century. As the explorer Marco Polo once wrote, ‘Here they ...
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1940s Turkish Vintage Silk Rugs and Carpets

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Silk

Very Fine Persian Silk Qum
Located in Newmanstown, PA
Very fine Persian Rug Qum 700 Knots per inch, Iran Qum Silk and Silk foundation. Around 1,600,000 knots tied by hand one by one. It takes about 1...
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1990s Persian Silk Rugs and Carpets

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Silk

Rug & Kilim’s Khotan Style Rug in Blue with Beige, Gold Pomegranate Patterns
Located in Long Island City, NY
Hand-knotted in silk, this 9x12 rug from our Modern Classics collection is an ode to antique Khotan-Samarkand rug styles. On the Design: The piece reimagines this provenance in a...
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2010s Indian Khotan Silk Rugs and Carpets

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Silk

Pure Silk Rugs, Metallic Pictorial Turkish Rugs, Hereke Handmade Carpet
Located in Hampshire, GB
This oriental rug for sale was woven in Asian Anatolia, Turkey in the historic city of Hereke. In the mid-19th century, Sultan Abdul Majid proclaimed Hereke to be the royal weaving village. The small rugs were woven there were considered the finest in the world. All examples of this woven rug used select Borsa silk which is the finest quality carpet silk. The Sultan required that all of the silk rugs woven in Hereke had to be signed with the name Hereke. These oriental rugs were regularly woven for the aristocracy in Europe, Asia, and The Middle East. The design of this luxury rugs is unique because it is an interpretation of the famous 17th-century Mughal carpet from India. The Mughal carpet was exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum and was illustrated in the book called Flowers Under Foot, published by the Museum. The gold rug has 1200 knots per square inch, and the entire field is woven of silver/metallic thread. The signature of these patterned rugs (see detail photos) is written in Ottoman script and says Use Ipek, which was the premier workshops in Hereke during the 1970s. Pure Silk Rugs, Metallic Pictorial Turkish Rugs...
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Late 20th Century Turkish Tabriz Silk Rugs and Carpets

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Metallic Thread

Antique Persian Tabriz Silk Rug 2' 5" x 3' 8"
Located in New York, NY
Antique Persian Tabriz silk rug, Size: 2'5" x 3'8".
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1920s Persian Vintage Silk Rugs and Carpets

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Silk

Vintage Persian Silk Qum Rug. 3 ft 4 in x 5 ft 2 in
Located in New York, NY
Blue Background Floral Vintage Silk Persian Qum Rug , Country of Origin / Rug Type: Vintage Persian Rug, Circa Date: Late 20th Century - Size...
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Late 20th Century Persian Tabriz Silk Rugs and Carpets

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Silk

Tapestry Royal Manufacture of Aubusson, Louis XVI period 1738 at the Gobelins
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). 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