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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Material: Wool
17th Century Mythological Aubusson Tapestry "The Rape of Proserpina"
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 My...
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17th Century European Classical Greek Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool

Antique 17th Century Flemish Tapestry 7'11" X 5'9"
Located in Los Angeles, US
A wall hanging tapestry, simply put, is a textile specifically designed and woven to portray an artistic scene with the intent of hanging it on a wall. Antique tapestries, those that...
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17th Century Unknown Other Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool, Cotton

Bobyrug’s Beautiful Little 18th Century French Needlepoint Fragment Tapestry
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Nice little French needlepoint tapestry with beautiful floral design and nice natural colors, entirely hand embroidered with needlepoint method with wool. ✨✨✨ "Experience the epitom...
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Late 18th Century French Aubusson Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool

Framed 18th Cent. French Rustic Tapestry, a Pedant Instructing Children in Music
Located in New York, NY
A framed French rustic tapestry from the 18th century, envisioning a pedant seated on a barrel, instructing a group children in music and the arts within a verdant setting. Enclosed ...
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18th Century French Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool

18th Century Fine Brussels Tapestry, Silk Wool, Green, Blue, Mythological Theme
Located in Port Washington, NY
This very fine Oudenaarde tapestry is one in the series related to the mythological story of Ulysses. It was woven in the late 18th century using t...
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18th Century and Earlier Belgian Aubusson Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool, Silk

17th Century Antique French Tapestry Verdure Wool & Silk Flowers 5x6
Located in New York, NY
17th Century Antique French Tapestry Verdure Wool & Silk Flowers 5x6 4'10" x 5'10" 147cm x 178cm 17th Century "This is a very fine high quality rare authentic Antique French Tapestr...
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1690s French Baroque Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool, Silk

Beautiful Antique Velvet Italian Textile 3'1" x 6'2"
Located in New York, NY
Beautiful Antique Velvet Italian Textile, Origin: Italy
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17th Century Italian Greco Roman Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool

Near Pair of Antique 17th C. Belgium Flemish Tapestry Portière (Border) Panels
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A Near Pair of Antique 17th-C. Belgium Flemish Tapestry Portière (Border) Panels Belgium, 17th century   Presenting a rare and exquisite pair of antique 17th-century Belgium Flemish...
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Late 17th Century French Renaissance Antique Wool Tapestries

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Fabric, Wool, Cotton, Silk

An 18TH Century Verdure Tapestry Of Large Scale
Located in London, GB
A fine eighteenth century verdure tapestry with lively greenery throughout showing dappled light on the trees, with a pair of pheasants in the foreground, and a clearing in the backg...
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Early 18th Century French Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool, Silk

17th Century French Verdure Tapestry
Located in Houston, TX
This exquisite 17th-century French Verdure tapestry captures the essence of pastoral beauty with its meticulously hand-woven wool intricacies. Measuring [dimensions], it transports v...
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17th Century French Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool, Silk

Wool And Silk Tapestry, Young Woman Under A Canopy, 18th Centuryflag
Located in Honnelles, WHT
Wool And Silk Tapestry, Young Woman Under A Canopy, significant wear but the tapestry is consistent
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18th Century French Louis XV Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool

18th Century Antique Velvet Wall Hanging Dutch Textile 6'3" x 8'6"
Located in New York, NY
Breathtaking Antique Velvet Wall Hanging Dutch Textile, Country of Origin: Netherlands, Circa Date: 18th Century
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18th Century Danish Victorian Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool

Antique Early Period Greek Embroidery from Epirus 1'2" x 5'1"
Located in New York, NY
Antique Early Period Greek Embroidery from Epirus, Country of Origin: Greece, Circa Date: Seventeenth Century
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17th Century Greek Other Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool

Fragment Of Flemish Tapestry Early 17th Century
Located in RÉDING, FR
Fragment of Flemish tapestry from the 17th century. This tapestry fragment depicts a mythological angelic child in the center. On either side we find two columns of golden acanthus s...
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17th Century Belgian Medieval Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool

Tapestry From Brussels Manufacture - Mid 17th Century - L2m40xh2m80 - N° 1375
Located in Paris, FR
A stone's throw from the Eiffel Tower We are a family business specializing in the purchase, sale and expertise of old, modern and contemporary tapestries, rugs, kilims and textiles....
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1650s French Aubusson Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool, Silk

1780's Aubusson Verdure Tapestry
Located in LYON, FR
This particular tapestry is a Verdure Aubusson circa 1780 / 1790. ‘Verdure’ (foliage) tapestries were woven throughout the 17th and 18th Centuries, featuring wooded landscapes, refle...
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1780s French Aubusson Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool

The Foundation of Constantinople - Frencch Aubusson Tapestry 17th Cntury N 1381
Located in Paris, FR
On May 11, 330, Roman Emperor Constantine I inaugurated a new city in his name, Constantinople. It is a second imperial capital, a new Rome, located on the site of the ancient Greek ...
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17th Century French Aubusson Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool, Silk

8ft 18th Century Hand Woven Aubusson Verdure Tapestry
Located in Las Vegas, NV
This incredible 18th Century European Hand-Woven Aubusson Verdure Wool Tapestry is an incredible piece of history and art. It is a large piece measuring just over 8ft tall and over ...
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18th Century Aubusson Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool

17th Century Monumental Tapestry/Gobelin Audience with the King in Antiquity
Located in Berlin, DE
17th Century Monumental Tapestry/Gobelin Audience with the King in Antiquity Extremely beautiful antique Gobelein tapestry, France probably arou...
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17th Century French Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool, Silk

17th Century Tapestry/Gobelein Alexander The Great And Darius III Persian King
Located in Berlin, DE
Monumental Museum tapestry/Gobelein 17th century Battle scene Alexander the Great and Darius III Persian King The characters are depicted in life size. An absolute museum unique. Dimension: 530x320 cm Description: Monumental tapestry...
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17th Century French Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool, Silk

18th Century Continental Tapestry Fragment with Putti or Angels and Cartouche
Located in Milford, NH
A nice example of a Continental hand wrought tapestry decorated with putti or angels and cartouche, with foliate accents and subtle tan border with raised flowers. The tapestry has a...
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18th Century European Baroque Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool, Silk

Late 17th Century Italian Heraldic Coat of Arms Tapestry, Lucca, circa 1690
Located in Encinitas, CA
Aristocratic style is presented by this tapestry; a heraldic coat of arms formed by woolen cloth of different colors applied in collage on blue woolen cloth. Lucchese (Lucca) manufac...
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Late 17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool, Linen

French Greenery Tapestry Aubusson 18th century - 2m67Hx1m97L - N° 1386
Located in Paris, FR
A stone's throw from the Eiffel Tower We are a family business specializing in the purchase, sale and expertise of old, modern and contemporary tapestries, rugs, kilims and textiles....
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1750s French Aubusson Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool, Silk

Pair of 18th c Belgian Mounted Tapestry Fragments with Putti or Angels
Located in Milford, NH
Pair of Brussels tapestry fragments finely woven of silk and wool featuring angels or putti carrying a basket of flowers above their heads. Opposing angels, one with a gold draped cl...
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1720s Belgian Baroque Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool, Silk, Wood

The Return of the Prodigal Son 17th Century Biblical Aubusson Tapestry - N° 1390
Located in Paris, FR
The Prodigal Son is one of the parables given by Jesus of Nazareth, also called the parable of the Lost Son or the Prodigal Son; He is sometimes called the Merciful Father, or the Found Son, or the parable of the Father and the two sons. It is related in the Gospel according to Luke 15:11–32, where it forms the last part of a trilogy, immediately preceded by the parables of the lost sheep...
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1670s French Aubusson Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool, Silk

Two Large, 18th Century Figural Tapestries from France
Located in Toronto, CA
Two large, 18th century, French figural tapestries, each with a central male figure standing in nature, one blowing a hunting horn and one with his arm raised in a searching gesture....
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18th Century French Rococo Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool

18 Century Tapestry From Brussels
Located in Brussels, Brussels
Lovely Brussels tapestry in wool and silk from the 18th century Very beautiful quarter-stitch tapestry representing a pond on which a young musician sits with a lyre under his arm. Next to him is a woman in an pink dress and a white coat. We can see the columns of a antique balcony...
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18th Century Belgian Louis XV Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool

17th Century Flemish Aubusson Tapestry
Located in Houston, TX
The 17th Century Flemish Aubusson Tapestry portraying a woman traveling or walking with her child is a captivating depiction of everyday life...
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17th Century Belgian Rustic Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool, Silk

Aubusson Tapestry
Located in Hellerup, DK
Wonderful original French Aubusson tapestry from ca. 1785 in good condition. The scenery is very well composed with a forrest, foliage and greens in the foreground, known as a "Verd...
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18th Century French Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool

French Louis XIV Verdure Tapestry, Aubusson, 1680
Located in Rome, IT
A fine Louis XIV verdure tapestry, Aubusson woven with a wooded river landscape with view of neighboring chateaux, in good four-side floral border. Measure: cm 200 x 300. France, sec...
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Late 17th Century Belgian Louis XIV Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool

Flanders tapestry 17th century - Children's games - L3m55xH2m40 - No. 1367
Located in Paris, FR
A stone's throw from the Eiffel Tower We are a family business specializing in the purchase, sale and expertise of old, modern and contemporary tapestries, rugs, kilims and textiles....
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17th Century French Aubusson Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool, Silk

17th Century Antique Flemish Verdure Tapestry w/ Trees & bird
Located in New York, NY
An antique 17th century Flemish Verdure Landscape Tapestry An antique 17th century Flemish verdure landscape tapestry, size: 7.4 H x 4.9 W. This fine handwoven European wall hanging...
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17th Century Belgian Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool, Silk

French Aubusson greenery Tapestry 17th century - L2m13xH1m78 - No. 1373
Located in Paris, FR
A stone's throw from the Eiffel Tower We are a family business specializing in the purchase, sale and expertise of old, modern and contemporary tapestries, rugs, kilims and textiles....
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1650s French Aubusson Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool, Silk

Brussels 18th Century Tapestry Teniers, Marché Poisson 12'6 x 8'6
Located in New York, NY
Brussels Circa 1750-Probably woven by Francois Van Der Borcht 1720-1765-Tenier's Style-A placid harbor with a perspectival weighted fortified city scape to left and a stone quay in t...
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16th Century Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool

Fantastic 17th Century Elaborately Loomed French Antique Tapestry
Located in New Orleans, LA
17th century French Elaborately loomed large tapestry with mountains and castle in background, depicting flushers blowing their horns to flush deer from the forest; hunters on horseb...
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17th Century French Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool

Bobyrug’s nice 17th century French Aubusson fragment tapestry
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Very beautiful Belgium Bruxelles 17th century tapestry fragment with beautiful colours, maybe used for a document or be framed .
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Late 17th Century French Aubusson Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool, Silk

17th Century Flemish Tapestry
Located in Dallas, TX
Exceptional Flemish tapestry featuring beautiful muted colors and a theme of soldiers and horses. A stunning work of art.
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17th Century Belgian Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool

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). 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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Located in Dallas, TX
Hand-woven in Brussels, circa 1650, this wool and silk tapestry depicts a church scene with six clergymen at an altar. After roughly 375 years, the colors are still vibrant, highlighted by fabrics of blue that punctuate the predominately gold, cream, and brown fibers of the textile. Two young bishops, possibly receiving their consecration, kneel on the steps of the altar, dressed in a cassock beneath a chimere, with one holding a thurible and the other a biretta. A third bishop stands in front of them, as two elder clergymen look on from the right of the altar. The older of the two holds a crozier and a biretta with arms extended from beneath a luxurious blue and gold ferraiolo. On the opposite side of the altar is the sixth and final bishop, who is wearing his biretta and holding a mitre. The luxurious altar is adorned with tall gilt candlesticks...
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Bobyrug’s wonderful antique 16th century French Aubusson tapestry
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Very nice and old french tapestry fragment, from the middle of the 16th century, with nice design of its period design and beautiful natural colo...
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16th Century French Aubusson Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool, Silk

The Conversion of Constantine, 17th Century Aubusson Manufacture Tapestry - 1362
Located in Paris, FR
In 312 AD, the Battle of the Milvian Bridge marked a decisive turning point for the Roman Empire and Christianity. At the gates of Rome, Constantine defeats Maxentius and is crowned ...
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Late 17th Century French Aubusson Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool, Silk

Floral Brussels Tapestry 18th Century - L 185 x H 85 cm - N° 1360
Located in Paris, FR
Period: 18th century - 1780 Condition: Perfect condition Material: Wool & Silk Width: 185cm Height: 85cm Depth: 1cm
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Located in New York, NY
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18th Century Dutch Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool

Late 18th C. French Aubusson Tapestry Silk & Wool Seat Fragment
Located in New York, NY
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1680s French Aubusson Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool

Swans Ducks 18th Century Aubusson French Tapestry Panel
Located in New York, NY
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Late 18th Century French French Provincial Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool

Late 18th C. French Aubusson Tapestry Silk & Wool Seat Fragment
Located in New York, NY
This is a silk and wool chair back cover fragment from antique 18th Century French Aubusson chair. Chair back woven in wools and silks, each wit...
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1680s French Aubusson Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool

Early 18th century Flemish antique tapestry 10x13 Verdure Wool & Silk 297x384cm
Located in New York, NY
Early 18th Century Antique Flemish Tapestry Fine Verdure Wool & Silk 9'9" x 12'7"(10x13) 297cm x 384cm Circa 1720 "This is a very fine Authentic Antique Flemish wool & silk Tapest...
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Early 18th Century French Baroque Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool, Silk

17th Century Flemish Tapestry Panel
Located in New York, NY
A Flemish tapestry panel from the 17th century, featuring a design of scrolling flowerheads and rosettes, with ribbon-ties and French fleur-de-lys motifs in the upper corners, and po...
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17th Century European Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool

Flemish Tapestry - Middle of 17th Century - History of the High Gods - N° 1354
Located in Paris, FR
Cartouche at the top edge: Cybele, goddess of the earth, daughter of the sky, steals from Saturn their son Jupiter through Janus, God of peace. Border with double column frame and double cartridge surrounded by garlands of polychrome fruits and flowers. Note: Taken from an episode in the history of the High Gods: Cybele is a divinity of Phrygian origin, adopted first by the Greeks then by the Romans, personifying wild nature. She is presented as “Magna Mater”, Great Goddess, Mother Goddess or even Mother of the Gods. She is the wife of Saturn. Having heard a prophecy from Janus (Roman god of beginnings and endings, choices, passage and doors) predicting that one of his children would dethrone him, Saturn swallowed his children. Cybele notably succeeds in saving Jupiter, by replacing him with large stones...
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1650s French Aubusson Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool, Silk

17th Century Parisian Tapestry, The History of Psyche
Located in Paris, FR
History of Psyche 17th Century Parisian Tapestry Wool and Silk 200 x 299 cm, 79 x 118 in Private French Collection
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17th Century French Aubusson Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool, Silk

Beauvais Tapestry, Design after Jean Berain
By Jean Bérain
Located in Paris, FR
Beauvais Tapestry, Design after Jean Berain Wool 18th Century 81 x 182 cm, 32 x 72 in Provenance, from a private French collection This tapestry comes from the so-called “Grote...
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18th Century French Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool

17th Century Brussels Tapestry, History of Diana
Located in Paris, FR
History of Diana 17th Century Brussels Tapestry Wool and Silk 200 x 299 cm, 79 x 118 in Provenance, from a private French collection
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17th Century Belgian Other Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool, Silk

Antique Late 17th Century Antique Franco-Flemish Verdure Landscape Tapestry
Located in New York, NY
This late 17th century Franco-Flemish verdure tapestry, signed RAET, worked in fresh colors, depicting animals in a wooded river landscape with a bird of prey attacking a rabbit in t...
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Late 17th Century Belgian Baroque Antique Wool Tapestries

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Tapestry, Wool

Greenery tapestry Flanders Oudenaarde - 18th century Dim 2.42x2.52 - No. 1346
Located in Paris, FR
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1760s French Aubusson Antique Wool Tapestries

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Zabihi Collection Late 18th Century Flemish Verdure Tapestry
Located in New York, NY
a late 18th century Flemish Vedure Tapestry Measures: 7'4'' wide x 9' long. Tapestries make integral part of the Flemish cultural heritage. Most of the tapestries have religious, m...
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18th Century French French Provincial Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool

16th century Brussels tapestry - The Story of David
Located in Bruxelles, BE
16th century Brussels tapestry The Story of David Brabant, 16th Century Monogram at the bottom left. 320 x 250 cm This splendid Brussels tapestry, crafted from wool and silk during ...
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16th Century Belgian Renaissance Antique Wool Tapestries

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Wool, Silk

17th Century Antique Flemish Tapestry 7'4"" X 5'10"
Located in Los Angeles, US
A wall hanging tapestry, simply put, is a textile specifically designed and woven to portray an artistic scene with the intent of hanging it on a wall. Antique tapestries, those that...
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17th Century Unknown Other Antique Wool Tapestries

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Large 17th century Aubusson Tapestry "Verdure" French
Located in Lyon, FR
Very big tapestry of the 17th century of the royal manufacture of Aubusson of the period "Verdure". Very beautiful work of craftsmanship for this unique p...
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