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cc-tapis Tidal Collection Wave Rug by Germans Ermičs
By cc-tapis
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Tidal Collection is a visual investigation into the relationship between texture, shape and color. A sophisticated gradient effect was created through an entirely new coloring sy...
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21st Century and Contemporary Nepalese Modern Wool Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
$7,484 / item
Antique French Tapestry with Dutch Pictorial Scene, 03'02 x 04'03
By Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Located in Dallas, TX
78542 Rare Antique French Tapestry with Dutch Pictorial Scene, 03'02 x 04'03. Step into a world of pastoral elegance and old-world charm with this early 20th century French handwoven...
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Early 20th Century French Aubusson Wool Western European Rugs
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Wool
Signed Vintage Andre Maurice Tapestry with Abstract Patterns - Rug & Kilim
Located in Long Island City, NY
Handwoven in wool and originating from France circa 1950, this 4×5 vintage tapestry is a signed collectible from Andre Maurice, a distinguished French visual artist known for his sig...
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1950s French Vintage Wool Western European Rugs
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Wool
Vintage Swedish Rya rug
Located in New York, NY
Charming small vintage Swedish rya rug from the 1950s. Geometric flower pattern in red, yellow and brown against a white base. Age appropriate wear with a small stain (shows in last ...
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1930s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Wool Western European Rugs
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Wool
European rug, 1970s wool
Located in Firenze, FI
Scandinavian wool rug, abstract design with oval shapes and concentric curves intertwining, creating a dynamic and psychedelic effect.
It features a style typical of the 1970s, char...
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1970s Scandinavian Vintage Wool Western European Rugs
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Wool
$1,482
Signed Leleu Vintage French Art Deco Circle Rug with Medallion - Rug & Kilim
Located in Long Island City, NY
Made with hand-knotted wool in France circa 1950, this 6x6 vintage French Art Deco rug is an extremely collectible mid-century circle rug from Leleu Decorateur—the work of an iconic ...
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1950s French Vintage Wool Western European Rugs
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Wool
Desert Sand Earth Bamboo Carpet by Massimo Copenhagen
Located in Geneve, CH
Desert sand earth bamboo carpet by Massimo Copenhagen
Handwoven
Materials: 50% New Zealand Wool, 50% Bamboo
Dimensions: W 300 x H 400 cm
Available colors: Nougat Rose, Cashmere, ...
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2010s Danish Post-Modern Wool Western European Rugs
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Wool, Bamboo
Viennese Carpet, 1910
Located in New York, NY
Viennese carpet, 1910
Austria, circa 1910
This carpet is a Classic example of a piece designed and woven following the progressive trends in the Eu...
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Early 20th Century Austrian Wool Western European Rugs
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Wool
$180,000
Zabihi Collection Lion Motif Northwest Persian Long Runner
Located in New York, NY
An early 20th Century Northwest Persian Conversational Animal Pictorial Runner.
Details
rug no. j2802
size 2' 7" x 12' 5" (79 x 378 cm)
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Early 20th Century Persian Folk Art Wool Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Sand Brianne Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Oozing essential chic, the Sand Brianne rug creates an elegant calm in a classic space. Hand loomed in Himalayan wool and viscose, the rug features a shiny center with a matte-effect...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wool Western European Rugs
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Textile, Wool
$3,186 / item
pretty vintage French Aubusson style Jacquard tapestry
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
"Experience the timeless elegance of this exquisite French Aubusson style tapestry, capturing the essence of a gallant celebration amidst the countryside. Woven on a Jacquard loom wi...
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Late 20th Century French Aubusson Wool Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$758 Sale Price
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Large 'Hayon x Nani' Hand-Tufted Rug by Jaime Hayon for Nanimarquina
By Nanimarquina, Sybilla
Located in Glendale, CA
Large 'Hayon x Nani' Hand-Tufted rug by Jaime Hayon for Nanimarquina.
Executed in 100% hand-tufted New Zealand wool. The 'Hayon x Nani' collection fait...
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21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Mid-Century Modern Wool Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
18th Century French Felletin Chinoiserie Mythological Tapestry w/ Trees & Satyrs
Located in New York, NY
An 18th century French Felletin chinoiserie mythological tapestry, size 11'6"H x 17'9"W.
This grand mythological tapestry depicts a mythological forest scene, with various satyrs and other mythological figures reveling in Dionysian fashion in the confines of the woodland setting. Finely detailed, with nimble articulation of figures and form, the piece also incorporates chinoiserie motifs, with stylized trees and bushes that have Oriental styling. The lower right corner of the primary field features both the town mark and weaver's mark, as well as the French symbol of the fleur de lis. The tapestry is enclosed within an elaborate outer border, featuring pendant...
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18th Century French Antique Wool Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool, Silk
$199,996 Sale Price
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Vintage German Sarouk Style Rug, 1970s, 1c972
Located in Bordeaux, FR
Vintage red German rug in traditional Persian Sarouk design. The rug has been made in the end of 20th century, it is in original good condition. The rug is machine made.
-condition:...
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Late 20th Century German Wool Western European Rugs
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Wool
Pretty vintage French Aubusson style hand printed tapestry medieval design
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
"Experience the timeless elegance of this exquisite French Aubusson style tapestry, capturing the essence of an 15th century Flanders tapestry with a design titled « La battue » (the...
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Mid-20th Century French Aubusson Wool Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$1,878 Sale Price
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17th Century French New Testament Religious Tapestry, Marriage of Mary & Joseph
Located in New York, NY
A French religious tapestry from Paris, circa 17th century, size 11' H x 11' W. This magnificent handwoven wool and silk wall hanging envisions the marriage of the New Testament figures, Mary and Joseph, with the High Priest flanked by Mary and Joseph at center and a dove above them, and with the central figures attended by a noblewoman and a group of men, and with a mother and child seated in the right foreground.
The central scene is enclosed within a border that is characterized by upper and lower central cartouches, supported by putti. It contains a star above, and the armorial of Pierre Guischard below. Six additional cartouches containing the symbols of the Evangelists run through the rest of the border, interspersed with fruiting and flowering elements, decorative swags, and birds.
Pierre Guischard (1614-1701) was doctor of Theology of the Holy Faculty of Paris and Great Master of the College of Navarre in Paris, Advisor, Chaplain and King Louis 14th...
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17th Century French Antique Wool Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool, Silk
$67,996 Sale Price
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Pretty vintage French Aubusson style Jacquard Tapestry
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
"Discover the timeless elegance of this exquisite vintage French tapestry featuring a galant scene.
Elevate your space with the charm of this beautifully crafted and woven tapestry,...
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Mid-20th Century French Aubusson Wool Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool, Cotton, Acrylic
$1,897 Sale Price
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cc-tapis Chateau Orlando Collection Jewelled Runner by Luke Edward Hall
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pure wool jacquard rug with design inspired by 1920s illustrations of jewellery discovered by Luke in a museum's collection. "Our four Chateau Orlando rug designs for cc-tapis are no...
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21st Century and Contemporary Nepalese Wool Western European Rugs
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Wool
Modern Style Irregular Shape Rug with Pop Colours by RAG HOME
By RAG home
Located in Jakarta Selatan, ID
Modern Style Irregular Shape Rug with Pop Colours by RAG HOME
RAG HOME’s products are hand-tufted carpets and rugs inspired by Rannisa Soraya’s, t...
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2010s Indonesian Modern Wool Western European Rugs
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Wool, Acrylic
1930s French Art Deco Aubusson Carpet Attributed to Jean-Michel Frank
Located in New York, NY
Attributed to Jean-Michel Frank (1893-1941)
Modernist designer Jean-Michel Frank was able to combine his love of beautiful
materials with his preference for strict geometric f...
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1930s French Art Deco Vintage Wool Western European Rugs
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Wool
$99,000 Sale Price
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Bobyrug’s Nice French Aubusson Style Jacquard Tapestry
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
"Exquisite French tapestry from the mid-20th century, featuring a beautiful design and nice colours, woven at Jules Pansu workshops in jacquard loom by wool and cotton. »
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Mid-20th Century French Aubusson Wool Western European Rugs
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Wool, Cotton
$1,479 Sale Price
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Vintage Rya Carpet, Swedish Rug, Colorful
Located in Port Washington, NY
1960s Swedish Rya rug with a colorful, plush wool pile. Size: 4'6" X 6'7".
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Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Wool Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
$2,399 Sale Price
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Pretty Vintage Aubusson Style Jacquard Tapestry
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
"Exquisite late 20th-century French tapestry featuring the enchanting design 'VERDURE AU MOULIN' after François Boucher. Capturing nature in its most picturesque form, adorned with p...
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Mid-20th Century French Aubusson Wool Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$1,403 Sale Price
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Early 20th Century German Tetex Rug
Located in Chicago, IL
A wonderful early 20th century German Tetex rug woven with a densely woven large-scale floral patterned field surrounded by a wide repeated floral patterned border, and all woven in ...
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1940s German Tribal Vintage Wool Western European Rugs
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Wool
1920s Antique Square Art Deco Rug, Multicolor with Large Medallion - Rug & Kilim
Located in Long Island City, NY
This 13x14 antique Art Deco rug is a rare and exceptional new addition to Rug & Kilim’s collection—a gorgeous early Dutch find of the movement of a versatile square size and particul...
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1910s Dutch Vintage Wool Western European Rugs
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Wool
Handmade Vintage French Aubusson Rug, 1970s, 1C884
Located in Bordeaux, FR
Handmade vintage French Aubusson rug in original good condition. This rug is one of a kind made in France in the end of 20th century.
-condition: original good,
-circa: 1970s,
...
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1970s French Vintage Wool Western European Rugs
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Wool
$4,239 Sale Price
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Pretty vintage French Aubusson style Jacquard Tapestry « Hunting with hounds »
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
"Discover the timeless elegance of this exquisite vintage French tapestry featuring Renaissance-style jacquard tapestry, "Hunting with Hounds," depicts a scene of a hunting with houn...
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Mid-20th Century French Aubusson Wool Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$2,324 Sale Price
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Pair of French Art Deco Rugs Designed by Jean Burkhalter for Pierre Chareau
Located in Milan, IT
An extremely rare Art Deco rug designed in 1925 by Jean Burkhalter and commissioned by Pierre Chareau for a seaside mansion on the island of Corsica....
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1920s French Art Deco Vintage Wool Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Bobyrug’s Nice Distressed Large Antique Aubusson Flat Rug
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Beautiful palace size antique french Aubusson flat rug with beautiful floral design and nice natural colors, entirely hand knotted with wool.
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"Experience the epitome of luxury a...
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Late 19th Century French Aubusson Antique Wool Western European Rugs
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Wool
$2,371 Sale Price
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Customizable ClassiCon Castellar Rug by Eileen Gray
By Eileen Gray
Located in New York, NY
Eileen Gray created not only some of the most important furniture classics of the 20th century but also had her own studio where rugs were produced according to her designs. Some of ...
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21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Wool Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
$11,932 / item
French Early Modern, Cubist, Art Deco "1930" Wool Carpet by Sonia Delaunay
Located in New York, NY
An important French Mid-Century Modern thick pile carpet in wool known as "1930" in a Cubist Design by Sonia Delaunay. Documentation: Monogrammed SD at corner of carpet. There is a c...
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Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Wool Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
$16,900 Sale Price
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Bobyrug’s Beautiful Moroccan Da Silva-Bruhns Design Art Deco Rug
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Very beautiful Art Deco period rug with nice geometrical design of Ivan Da Silva-Bruhns, with beautiful brown colors, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation.
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1930s Moroccan Art Deco Vintage Wool Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$18,024 Sale Price
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Evelina Kroon Ochre Fields Wool Rug
Located in Stockholm, SE
In collaboration with renowned Scandinavian artist Evelina Kroon, Layered introduces a collection that explores the boundary between art and interior design. With references to tradi...
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2010s Indian Wool Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
$1,891 / item
Vintage Old Bessarabian Kilim Rug, Moldovan Moldavian Romanian Bulgarian Carpet
Located in Tokyo, JP
This is a Vintage Old Bessarabian Kilim Rug from Moldova with a rare and beautiful color composition.
Today it is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordering Romania and Ukrai...
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Late 20th Century Moldovan Kilim Wool Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool, Natural Fiber
$672 Sale Price
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Vintage Chinese Floral Needlepoint Rug with French Country Style
Located in Dallas, TX
77206 vintage Chinese floral needlepoint rug with French Country style. Various flower species grace the windows of an all-over compartment sty...
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Late 20th Century Chinese Country Wool Western European Rugs
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Wool
Garden, Jean Picart Le Doux - Moderne Signed French Carpet Rug - N° 1487
Located in Paris, FR
Garden, Jean Picart Le Doux
Modern French Rug
This rug is Signed with Bolduc on the back, Dimension 200x300
Rare and Very Beautiful wool rug with exotic foliage patterns
Limited edi...
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20th Century Wool Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique France Aubusson Rug
Located in New York, NY
Antique France Aubusson rug
France, circa 1880
Handwoven.
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Late 19th Century French Aubusson Antique Wool Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
$19,000
Time Flows - French Art Deco Rug, Circa 1940 - Wool Pile on Cotton - No. 1518
Located in Paris, FR
Time Flows - French Art Deco Rug, Circa 1940 - Wool Pile on Cotton - No. 1518
Period: 20th century
Style: Art Deco
Condition: Perfect condition
Material: Wool Pile on Cotton
Length: ...
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20th Century French Art Deco Wool Western European Rugs
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Wool, Cotton
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.
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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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