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Sibylle#1 Bordeaux Wall Hanging by Studiopepe
By Once Milano
Located in Milan, IT
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2010s Italian Continental Europe - Tapestries
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Handwoven and Signed Jean Lurcat Aubusson Tapestry
By Jean Lurçat
Located in Dronten, NL
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Aubusson tapestry 19th century. century - 2m80Hx1m80L - N° 943
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
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Circa 1590 Flemish Brussels Tapestry Castle King Holy war Hours sword wool silk
By Flemish
Located in Paris, FR
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1107 - Aubusson Tapestry 19th Century Lady with the Unicorn
Located in Paris, FR
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French Aubusson TABARD Tapestry, artsit André Verdet - 112lx86hcm - N° 1548
By Tabard, André Verdet
Located in Paris, FR
André Verdet, born August 4, 1913 in Nice and died December 19, 2004 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, was a French poet, painter, sculptor, and ceramist.
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Size: 100 x 140 cm.
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Located in Saint Ouen, FR
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Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Nice french Aubusson style tapestry with beautiful design of nature and town, and nice colors, woven by mechanical Jaquar manufacturing with wool and cotton.
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Located in Saint Ouen, FR
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Little Wood Harp, Jean Picart Le Doux - French Aubusson Maison Berthaut - N 1536
By Aubusson Manufacture, Jean Picart Le Doux
Located in Paris, FR
Artist: Charles Marcel Jean Picart Le Doux
Era: 20th century
Style: 1950s-1960s design
Condition: Perfect condition
Material: Wool
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16th Century, Flemish Storied Wood Tapestry
Located in IT
16th century, Flemish storied wood tapestry
Flanders Brussels
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Located in Firenze, FI
Provenance: Oudenaarde manufacture, Flanders, Mid-16th Century
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Dimensions 340/330 x 340/338cm
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In good condition
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Art Deco Tapisserie
Located in Antwerp, BE
Antique Art Deco velvet fabric. Persian style woven motif. Warm red, orange and black velvety surface. Dimensions: 257W x 135H cm.
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Vintage 1960s Hand-Printed French Wall Tapestry in Wool Signed by J.C. Bissery
By Jean Claude Bissery
Located in COLMAR, FR
An exceptional and very rare wall tapestry from the 1960s in amazing condition. This large and stunning wall tapestry in wool has been designed and signed on the back by the French a...
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Textured macrame wall hanging, Spain, 1970s
Located in BARCELONA, ES
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Homage to Mozart, Jean Picart Le Doux - French Tapestry, Edition artist - N 1467
By Jean Picart Le Doux, Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
Artist: Jean Picart Le Doux
Era: 20th century
Style: Design 50s-60s
Condition: Perfect condition
Material: Wool - Hand made
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A Source, Jean Lurçat - Moderne French Tapestry Tabard workshop - 180lx127h 1496
By Jean Lurçat, Tabard
Located in Paris, FR
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Artist: Jean Lurçat (1892-1966)
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Located in Saint Ouen, FR
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Dragon designs are on relief.
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Starfish, Jean Picart Le Doux - French Aubusson Tapestry, Maison Berthaut - 1543
By Aubusson Manufacture, Jean Picart Le Doux
Located in Paris, FR
Artist: Charles Marcel Jean Picart Le Doux
Era: 20th century
Style: 1950s-1960s design
Condition: Perfect condition
Material: Wool
Width: 200 cm
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Depth: 0.5 cm
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French antique, Greenery Tapestry 19th century by Aubusson Manufactury - N° 1025
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Paris, FR
Period: 19th century
Condition: Perfect condition
Material: Wool
Width: 1m60
Height: 1m25
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Tapestry Royal Manufacture of Aubusson, Louis XVI period 1738 at the Gobelins
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Madrid, ES
Tapestry from the Royal Manufacture of Aubusson, Louis XVI period , made in 1738 at the Gobelins
One panel from a series of Gobelins tapestries depicting the History of Esther, illustrating Esther seated and attended by handmaidens, one washing her feet in golden basin, another fastening a bracelet, another offering a mirror, all observed by Mordecai, woven in the workshop of Michele Audran after a design by J. F. de Troy.
The Toilet of Esther c.1778-85.Royal Collection Trust-Queens Audience Chamber
Windsor Castle
The Sketches for the Esther Cycle by Jean-François de Troy (1736)
“and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mor’decai, ..., took for his own daughter.” (Est. 2:7)
A supple and undulating genius, both a flattering portraitist and a prolix history painter, as well as a brilliant genre painter, in a gallant or worldly vein, Jean-François de Troy (Paris, 1679 – Rome, 1752), solicited, although he had passed the threshold of old age, a new royal commission up to his ambitions. To obtain it, he submitted – successfully - for the approval of the Bâtiments du roi (administration), seven modelli painted in 1736 with his usual alacrity.
Inspired by one of the most novelistic texts of the Old Testament, the Book of Esther, these sketches in a rapid and virtuoso manner were transformed by the artist, between 1737 and 1740 into large cartoons intended to serve as models for the weavers of the Gobelins factory. Showing undeniable ease and skill in the composition in perfect harmony with the sensitivities of the times, the tapestry set met with great success.
The Story of Esther perfectly corresponded to the plan of the Bâtiments du roi to renew the repertoire of tapestry models used for the weavers of the royal factories while it also conformed to the tastes of Louis XV’s subjects for a fantastical Orient, the set for a dramatic tale in which splendour, love and death were combined. Indeed, no tapestry set was woven in France during the 18th century as often as that of Esther.
The series of modelli painted by de Troy during the year 1736 looks to the history of French painting and decoration under Louis XV as much as it does the history of the Gobelins. It probably counts among the most important rococo pictorial groups to have remained in private hands. First the Biblical source illustrated by De Troy which constitutes the base of one of the richest iconographical traditions of Western art will be considered. Then the circumstances and specific character of French civilisation during the reigns of Louis XIV and Louis XV which contributed to making the theme of Esther a relevant subject, both attractive to contemporaries and remarkably in line with the sensitivities of the time will be elucidated.
An examination of the exceptional series of sketches united here, the cartoons and the tapestries that they anticipate as well as a study of their reception will close this essay. The Book of Esther: A scriptural source at the source of rich iconography.
The origin of the Esther tapestry set by Jean-François de Troy – origin and creation of a masterpiece
According to the evidence of one of the artist’s early biographers, the chevalier de Valory, author of a posthumous elegy of the master, read at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture on 6 February 1762, it was apparently due to early16 rivalry with François Lemoyne (1688-1737), his younger colleague who had precisely just been appointed First Painter to the King in 1736, that had encouraged François de Troy to seek a commission allowing him to show off his ease and his promptitude at the expense of a rival who was notoriously laborious: “M. De Troy, retaining some resentment of the kind of disadvantage which he believed to have suffered compared with his emulator looked to regain some territory by making use of the facility his rival did not possess.
Lemoyne was excessively long in the creation of his works,and M. De Troy of a rare celerity: consequently, with this particular talent, the latter offered to the court to make paintings appropriate to be executed at the Gobelins Factory; and it is to this circumstance that we owe the beautiful series of the Story of Esther, which would be sufficient alone to give him a great reputation.”17 Beyond the suspicion inspired by the topos, which still constitutes, more or less, a tale of rivalries between artists in ancient literature, there is probably some truth in what Valory reports although A.-J. Dezalier d’Argenville (who indicates rather spitefully that de Troy did not hesitate to “cut prices” to impose himself, benefitting from the productivity assured by the unlikely rapidity of his brush)18 proves to be more evasive: “As he looked to busy himself, he had offered to make the paintings that serve as models for the King’s tapestries cheaply: which did not please his colleagues.
He was given a choice of two tapestry series to be made and he took the Story of Esther and that of Jason”.19 Whether or not the choice was actually left to de Troy (which would appear rather casual on the royal administration’s part all the same), it seems likely that the artist, whose contemporaries extol his “fire”, as the faculty of invention was then called, must have ardently aspired to the possibility of using on a very large scale the “creative genius” with which Dezallier d’Argenville credits him. The decoration of the private apartments, the fashion for which Louis XV had promoted at Versailles and Fontainebleau, offered little opportunity to excel in this area. Other than painting for altarpieces, only tapestries could allow comparison with Lemoyne who had been granted – unfortunately for him – a major decoration: the enormous ceiling of the Hercules Room at Versailles. Favoured by the recent improvement in France’s financial situation, the revival of patronage offered de Troy a commission fitting for him, in a field in which, however, he had hardly any experience.
Anxious to renew the repertoire of models available to the Gobelins factory, the Duc d’Antin, surintendant des Bâtiments du roi from 1708 to 1736 followed by his successor, Philibert Orry comte de Vignory, gave him the task of producing seven large cartoons inspired by the Book of Esther corresponding to the brilliant sketches or modelli which de Troy had produced in one go, or almost (very few preparatory drawings can in fact be linked to the Esther cycle and all seem to be at the execution stage of the cartoons).20 Subjected to the approval of the Administration des Bâtiments according to the procedure in use for projects being planned for the Gobelins, sketches made rapidly during 1736 were approved and the project launched immediately. Thereupon came the news of François Lemoyne’s death, who, ground down by work and a victim of his private torment, committed suicide on 4 June 1737.
Against all expectations, de Troy did not replace his rival in the position of First Painter (which remained vacant until the appointment of Charles Coypel in January 1747), which would perhaps have made him too obviously the beneficiary of the drama. The awarding of the position of Director of the French Academy in Rome came to console him while he had already produced (or he was in the process of finishing), in Paris, three of the seven cartoons of the cycle (The Fainting of Esther finished in 1737 and the Toilet and Coronation of Esther, both finished in 1738).
De Troy, we can see, did not follow the order of the narrative but began with the subjects which apparently offered the least difficulty because he had already depicted them, or because they fall into a strong pictorial tradition (such is the case especially for the Fainting of Esther). He had hardly settled at the Palazzo Mancini in August 1738, when his first task which awaited the new director of the French Academy naturally consisted of honouring the royal commission and finishing without delay the final cartoons of the Story of Esther after the sketches he must have taken with him. As prompt as ever, de Troy discharged himself of the execution of the four remaining cartoons in only two years, by beginning with the largest format which allowed him to strike the imagination and to impose himself as soon as he arrived on the Roman stage: the Triumph of Mor’decai which was finished in 1739 (like Esther’s Banquet).
The following year, the Mor’decai's Disdain and The Sentencing of Haman were brought to an end in the same Neo-Venetian style, obviously tributary to Veronese with its choice of “open” monumental architecture which is characteristic of the entire cycle.21 The series, it should be noted, was almost augmented with some additional scenes in the mid 1740s. Indeed, the first tapestry set finished at the Gobelins in 1744 proved to be unsuitable for the arrangement of the Dauphine’s apartments at Versailles for which it had been intended to decorate the walls the following year (cf infra). Informed of this, de Troy, considering that the story of Esther offered “several good subjects,” immediately offered to illustrate one or new subject among those “which could appear to be the most interesting”.
The directeur des Bâtiments Orry, who managed the State’s accounts, obviously judged it less costly to have one of the tapestries widened to fill in the end of the Dauphine’s bedroom,22 which has probably deprived us of very original compositions, because de Troy had already illustrated the most famous themes, those that benefitted from a strongly established iconographical tradition and from which it was not easy to deviate
The Tapestry Set of the Story of Esther
Placed on the tapestry looms of the Gobelins at the end of the 1730s in Michel Audran’s workshop, the cycle created by de Troy aroused true infatuation. The few hundred tapestries made between 1738 and 1797 – all in high-warp tapestry and woven in wool and silk except for four in low-warp made in Neilson’s workshop – show the impressive success of a tapestry set that was without any doubt the most frequently woven of the 18th century in France.
29 Only three cartoons had been delivered by de Troy in 1738 when the first tapestry set was begun by Audran under the expert eye of Jean-Baptiste Oudry to whom the Directeur général des bâtiments, Philibert Orry had assigned the (weekly) supervision of the weaving. During the summer of 1738, the piece of the Fainting of Esther, which Oudry judged to be admirable, was finished.
During the winter of 1742, Oudry informed Orry that about two ells of the Triumph of Mor’decai had been made “with no faults”,that the Coronation of Esther was finished and that the Esther at her Toilet “a very gracious tapestry” was “a little over half” finished. Exhibited at Versailles in 1743, these two last pieces were admired by Louis XV and the Court.
On 3 December 1744, the set of seven tapestries was finally delivered to the Garde Meuble. It was intended, the honour was not slight, to decorate the apartments of the Infanta Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain whose marriage to the young Dauphin Louis-Ferdinand had been fixed for the following year (it took place on 23 February 1745). Apparently it was thought that the theme of Esther the biblical heroine and wife of a foreign sovereign was appropriate for the apartments of the Spanish Dauphine.
As early as the month of March, the architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel informed de Troy that her grand cabinet was decorated with the “Esther tapestry set” specifying however that “for lack of two small or one large piece, we have not been able to decorate the end of the room”. This difficulty led immediately to the Banquet episode being woven a second time in two parts (they were delivered to the Garde-Meuble on 30 December 1746) to garnish the panels on each side of the bed of the Dauphine who would hardly enjoy them (she died on 22 July 1746 and the decoration was installed for the new Dauphine Maria Josepha of Saxony).
The appearance of the set’s remarkable border, which imitated a richly sculpted wooden frame, should be mentioned. Conceived in 1738 by the ornamentalist Pierre Josse-Perrot and used in the later weavings until 1768, it tended to reinforce the resolutely painterly appearance of the tapestry set which, in this regard, pushed the art of tapestry as far as its ultimate mimetic possibilities. With the exception of Mor’decai's Disdain which had been removed earlier, the “editio princeps” of the story of Esther (from then on in nine pieces) remained at Versailles until the Revolution. Of the eight surviving tapestries, four are at the chateau of Compiègne and four belong today to the Mobilier National. No less than seven tapestry sets reputed to be complete (one of them in fact only had six tapestries) would be produced officially at the Gobelins up to 1772.
Literature:
1- The Œuvres mêlées of an emulator of Racine, the Abbé Augustin NADAL thus include an Esther. Divertissement spiritual which is exactly contemporary with Jean François de Troy’s cycle since it was performed in 1735 and published in Paris three years later.
2-Le Siècle de Louis XIV, 1751, 1785 ed., p. 96-97 for French ed.
3- Lemoyne and de Troy had been obliged to share the First Prize in the competition organised in 1727 between the most prominent history painters of the Académie Royale.
4- Mémoires…, pub. L. DUSSIEUX et al., 1854, II, p.265.
5-The fact that de Troy, at the risk of falling out with his colleagues, did not hesitate to make use of prices in order to convince the new directeur des Bâtiments Philibert Orry, is confirmed by Mariette who adds tersely “it caused much shouting” (pub. 1851-1860, II, p. 103).
6- Abrégé de la vie des plus fameux peintres…, ed. 1762, IV, p. 368-369 20 Early comments on the painter are inclined to present him as a kind of “pure painter”, doing without the medium of drawing, a few intermediary studies between the Esther sketches and the large cartoons at the Louvre nevertheless show that de Troy used red chalk (see in the catalogue, the notice for the Meal of Esther and Ahasuerus under the entry drawing) to change one or other figure.
7-C. GASTINEL-COURAL (cat. exp. PARIS, 1985, p. 9-13) as well as the article by J. VITTET, exh. cat. LA ROCHE-GUYON, 2001, p. 51-55.
8-The Hermitage in St. Petersburg conserves five tapestries of these two royal gifts whose provenance still awaits elucidation (as far as we are aware). In 1766, the Grand Marshal of Russia, Count Razumovski (or Razamowski), acquired the Fainting and the Banquet extracted from the sixth weaving (J. VITTET, 2001, p. 53).
9- Lettres écrites de Suisse, d’Italie…,quoted by J. VITTET, op. cit., p. 54.
10-The tapestry set remained in the hands of a branch of the Hapsburg-Lorraine family until 1933 (ibid. P. 54).
11-Quoted by Chr. LERIBAULT, 2002, p. 97, note 269.
12-Y. CANTAREL-BESSON, 1992, p. 241.
Catalogue
The Esther at her Toilet
Oil on canvas, 57 x 51 cm Provenance: Painted in 1736 at the same time as the six other modelli of the Story of Esther intended to be presented, for approval, to the direction des Bâtiments du Roi; perhaps identifiable among a lot of sketches by Jean-François de Troy in the post mortem inventory of the amateur, historian and critic Claude-Henri Watelet (1718-1786) drawn up on 13 January 1786 and following days (A.N. T 978, n° 30) then in the sale of the property of the deceased, Paris, 12 June 1786, n° 33; Paris, François Marcille Collection (who owned a series of six sketches from which the Triumph of Mor’decai was missing, see infra); Paris, Marcille Sale, Hôtel Drouot, 12-13 January 1857, n° 36; Asnières, Mme de Chavanne de Palmassy ( ?) collection; Paris, Galerie Cailleux; Paris, Humbert de Wendel collection (acquired from the Galerie Cailleux in 1928); by inheritance in the same family; Paris, Sotheby’s, 23 June 2011, n° 61. In order not to add unnecessarily to the technical commentary on each work, the catalogue raisonné by Chr. Leribault which contains a substantial bibliography on the series should be referred to. The other bibliographical references only concern the publications and exhibitions to have appeared and been presented more recently. Bibliography and Exhibitions: Chr. LERIBAULT, 2002, n° P. 247 (repr.); E. LIMARDO DATURI, 2004, p. 28; Exh. cat. NANTES, 2011, p. 138, n° 34, referred to in note 1; Sotheby’s catalogue, Tableaux anciens et du XIXe siècle, 23 June 2011, n° 61 (repr.).
Related Works:
Tapestry cartoon: The cartoon (oil on canvas, 329 x 320 cm), the third made by the artist in Paris after the sketches had been approved by the direction des Bâtiments, is in the Louvre (Inv. 8315). It previously bore the painter’s signature and the date 1738 (inscriptions which are found on the tapestries). The royal administration paid 1600 livres for it on 21 June 1738 and it was exhibited at the Salon in the year of its creation.
Summary Biography
1679 (27 January): Baptism in Paris (Parish of St. Nicolas du Chardonnet) of Jean-François de Troy, son of the painter François de Troy and Jeanne Cotelle, sister of the painter Jean II Cotelle.
1696-1698: Studies (apparently rather turbulent) at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture.
1698-1708: First trip to Italy. Is obliged to leave Rome in January 1711 after a tempestuous affair (a duel?), de Troy extends the traditional Roman experience as a pensionnaire at the Académie de France by also visiting Tuscany where he stays for a long time, Venice (his art in face has a strongly Venetian character) and Genoa.
1708: De Troy (whose father had been elected Director of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture on 7 July) is agréé and immediately received at the Académie with Apollo and Diana Piercing with their Arrows the Children of Niobe (Montpellier, Musée Fabre) on 28 July.
1710: First royal commission, paid for on 10 May (a sketch representing “the Promotion of the Order of the Holy Spirit” for the tapestry series of the History of the King).
1716: Jean-François de Troy is elected Assistant Professor at the Academy.
1720: He is appointed Professor.
1723: The artist creates the double portrait of Louis XV...
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21st Century and Contemporary Continental Europe - Tapestries
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Wool
Pretty Mid Century French Aubusson style Jacquard Tapestry, « by Goya »
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Very pretty mid century french Aubusson style tapestry with beautiful design from the painter « Francisco de Goya (1775-1792) for the royal manufactury of Tapestry »
Tapestry crafte...
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Mid-20th Century French Aubusson Continental Europe - Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Cotton
"Don Quixote" Hand Made Silk Embroidered Tapestry Wall Decor
By (After) Michael Verkholantzev
Located in Hong Kong, HK
"Don Quixote" Hand made silk embroidered tapestry in Art Deco style after famous artist Michael Verkholantzev, the academician of painting. H...
Category
2010s Spanish Art Deco Continental Europe - Tapestries
Materials
Silk
Pretty Vintage Aubusson Style médiéval design Jacquard Tapestry « deer chase »
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
very beautiful Aubusson style tapestry, with a design of a medieval tapestry representing « deer chase» (poursuite du cerf), with Beautiful colours with green background, pink, yell...
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Mid-20th Century French Aubusson Continental Europe - Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$1,677 Sale Price
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Pretty antique tapestry cardboard hand painted panel
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Pretty 19th century French tapestry cardboard with a nice design of swing game featuring a young man standing pushing a young girl sitting on the swing. At a setting in the woods, be...
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Late 19th Century French Romantic Antique Continental Europe - Tapestries
Materials
Cotton, Linen
$2,422 Sale Price
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772 -Tapestry Robert Debieve of the 20th Century
By Royal Manufacture of Aubusson
Located in Paris, FR
"Sub-Marine" modern tapestry of the 20th century realised by Robert Debieve, in perfect condition of conservation.
Negotiable price and free delivery.
Dimension: 157 cm x 113 cm.
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1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Continental Europe - Tapestries
Materials
Wool
Earthy Colored Framed Wall Tapestry by Riitta-Maija Oksanen, Finland, 1970s
By Helmi Vuorelma Oy
Located in Barcelona, ES
Framed wall tapestry made by Finnish artist Riitta-Maija Oksanen for Helmi Vuorelma OY. Jute, straw and wool used creating a minimalistic 3-dimensional ...
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Mid-20th Century Finnish Scandinavian Modern Continental Europe - Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Jute, Straw
Sofa Louis XV, Covered with Authentic Perfect Aubusson Tapestry
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
1910/M,
I hope You can understand what it is from some photos only.
Museum quality antique sofa, coating with an authentic Aubusson old tapestry: every...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Louis XV Antique Continental Europe - Tapestries
Materials
Wood
$8,199 Sale Price
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Jean Picart Le Doux, Homage to Pablo Neruda - Signed screen print Bolduc- N 1463
By Jean Picart Le Doux
Located in Paris, FR
"Homage to Pablo Neruda" by Jean Picart Le Doux -
Signed screenprint, Bolduc on the back of the tapestry, Numbered Edition 432/500 - 155Lx115H
* This Tapestry has been cleaned by ou...
Category
20th Century Modern Continental Europe - Tapestries
Materials
Canvas
Victor Vasarely, Hand Signed Original Tapestry
By Victor Vasarely
Located in Geneve, CH
Victor Vasarely (1906-1997).
Panderlak,
circa 1983
Measures: 120 x 72 cm
Hand signed and numbered on the back, edition of 320.
Victor Vasarely, whose original name was Gyözö ...
Category
1980s French Modern Vintage Continental Europe - Tapestries
Materials
Wool
$13,976 / item
Pretty antique french Aubusson tapestry panel
By Royal Manufacture of Aubusson
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Very beautiful antique French Aubusson tapestry fragment featuring flowers and trees With nice natural colours in the hues of yellow, green, pink, purple and brown, entirely hand wov...
Category
Late 19th Century French Aubusson Antique Continental Europe - Tapestries
Materials
Wool
$2,049 Sale Price
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Bobyrug’s pretty vintage Aubusson style french jacquard tapestry
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Pretty vintage French Aubusson style tapestry with a nice design and light colours, woven in mechanical jacquard looms with cotton, wool and acrylic,
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Category
Mid-20th Century French Aubusson Continental Europe - Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Cotton, Acrylic
Rare Tunisian Ouedzem Embroidered Tissue from Private Collection
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
Rare and vintage Tunisian carpet, embroidered like a tissue for wall - Private Italian collection -
IDEA: use this item as tapestry on the wall or on ...
Category
1960s Tunisian Tribal Vintage Continental Europe - Tapestries
Materials
Wool
$2,049 Sale Price
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Bobyrug’s Nice Vintage Turkish Silk Kayseri Rug
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Pretty Mid Century Turkish Kayseri rug with beautiful mihrab design and nice colors, entirely hand knotted with silk and cotton on cotton foundation.
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Category
Mid-20th Century Turkish Tabriz Continental Europe - Tapestries
Materials
Cotton, Silk
$913 Sale Price
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Pretty Vintage Aubusson Style medieval museum design Jacquard Tapestry
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
very beautiful Aubusson style tapestry, with a design of a medieval Rhenish tapestry (1480-1490) Basel (Switzerland), representing a royal court of France, the arms of France, with b...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Aubusson Continental Europe - Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$1,826 Sale Price
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Bobyrug’s Nice Antique French Hand Printed Lurçat Signed Tapestry
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Very beautiful antique french hand printed tapestry with nice design of Jean Lurçat, with a signature printed on the design of the tapestr...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Continental Europe - Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Bobyrug’s Nice Modern French Tapestry Signed Nee
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Explore timeless beauty with a midcentury French rug by Pauline Nee. This exquisite creation bears the signature touch of Nee Creation, a French enterprise known for crafting modern ...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Modern Continental Europe - Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$1,844 Sale Price
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Wall Tapestry – Geometric Composition from the 70s
Located in Barcelona, ES
Wall Tapestry – Geometric Composition from the 70s
This wall tapestry, created in France around 1970 by an unknown artist, is a textile work of art that stands out for its exception...
Category
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Continental Europe - Tapestries
Materials
Textile
$1,030 Sale Price / item
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Antique french Needlepoint Panel or border Tapestry
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Beautiful late 19th century needlepoint tapestry in the form of a stripe or border fragment, with nice floral design and beautiful colours, entirely hand embroidered with needlepoint...
Category
Late 19th Century French Aubusson Antique Continental Europe - Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Silk
$2,105 Sale Price
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Bobyrug’s Very beautiful mid century French tapestry By « Le Guen »
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Discover the timeless elegance of the "Aube Fleurie" titled limited edition wall tapestry from Manufacture Robert Four in Aubusson, France. This exquisite piece, signed by Thérèse Le...
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Continental Europe - Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Pretty Vintage Aubusson Style Jaquar Tapestry “fountain rest “
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Very pretty mid century French tapestry with nice galant design titled “Repos Fontaine” (Fontain Rest) and beautiful colors, woven with mechanical Jaquar looms with wool, acrylic and...
Category
Late 20th Century French Aubusson Continental Europe - Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$1,174 Sale Price
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Bobyrug’s Nice Vintage Jaquar Tapestry with Lion II – Darius Tapestry Design
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
"Discover Lion II – Darius Tapestry –
A stunning vintage Belgian tapestry showcasing a captivating design inspired by the rich history of Pers...
Category
Late 20th Century Belgian Aubusson Continental Europe - Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$2,329 Sale Price
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Bobyrug’s pretty antique French Aubusson style Jacquard tapestry
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Exquisite French antique tapestry Dating back to the late 19th or early 20th century, this mechanically woven masterpiece on Jacquard looms showcases a charming countryside scene. Cr...
Category
Late 19th Century French Aubusson Antique Continental Europe - Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$1,844 Sale Price
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Handmade Egyptian Wall Tapestry or Wall Rug, 1950s
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
Beautiful 20th century ( 1950s circa) Egyptian wall tapestry handmade in wool. It was hand knotted by the tribes of north africa in egypt. A na...
Category
1950s Egyptian Vintage Continental Europe - Tapestries
Materials
Wool
Textured macrame wall hanging, Spain, 1970s
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Superb macramé wall tapestry made in Spain in the 1970s. Large format. Handmade tapestry composed of different textures and materials creating unique patterns and reliefs. All the ro...
Category
1970s Spanish Hollywood Regency Vintage Continental Europe - Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Bobyrug’s Vintage French Hand Printed Medieval Design Tapestry « Noble Amazon
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Discover a reproduction of the exquisite "Noble Amazone" French medieval museum tapestry, a true masterpiece of design. This captivating artwork showcases a noble lady elegantly seat...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Medieval Continental Europe - Tapestries
Materials
Cotton
$1,844 Sale Price
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Wall tapestry by Anna Urbanowicz Krowacka signed and title the lightning
Located in grand Lancy, CH
Wall tapestry by Anna Urbanowicz Krowacka Signed and title the lightning mixed techniq
Category
1970s Polish Vintage Continental Europe - Tapestries
Materials
Fabric
Pretty antique 17th century French Aubusson Tapestry fragment
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
"Exquisite fragment of a border of a French Aubusson tapestry from the middle of the 17th century, featuring a beautiful design of flowers and nice natural colours, entirely hand wov...
Category
Mid-17th Century French Aubusson Antique Continental Europe - Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Silk
large and rare 17th century tapestry (elephanteau) - N°1340
Located in Paris, FR
This Charming Aubusson Historical Tapestry depicts "The Story of The Elephant Who Had a Rope in its Leg" In the middle of the Tapestry we see the Queen giving this important lesson t...
Category
1680s French Aubusson Antique Continental Europe - Tapestries
Materials
Wool
Bobyrug’s Beautiful French Aubusson Style Jaquar Tapestry
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Nice french tapestry with beautiful gallant scenes with lovers on the beach and nice colors, mechanical Jaquar manufacturing with wool and cotton.
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Category
Late 20th Century French Aubusson Continental Europe - Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$1,360 Sale Price
20% Off
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