Extremely Fine Antique Aubusson-Beauvais Pictorial French Tapestry

The Aubusson tapestry manufacture of the 17th and 18th centuries managed to compete with the royal manufacture of Gobelins tapestry and the privileged position of Beauvais tapestry. Tapestry manufacture at Aubusson, in the upper valley of the Creuse in central France, may have developed from looms in isolated family workshops established by Flemings that are noted in documents from the 16th century. Typically, Aubusson tapestries depended on engravings as a design source or the full-scale cartoons from which the low-warp tapestry-weavers worked. As with Flemish and Parisian tapestries...

An over mantel hanging from a skilled French workshop in the detailed 18th century manner. Measures: 2'2'' x 4'6''. A shaped buff-tan plain border supports a verdant inner floral wr...

Very beautiful late 19th century French Aubusson tapestry of Beauvais with a nice design of flower Harvest, Beautiful women are gathering flowers in the garden and the woods, chatti...

Very beautiful late 19th century French Aubusson tapestry with a nice design of a village, with nature, trees, birds, a river, chickens. a mill on the edge of the river, village hous...