Exceptional set of two tapestries - Lot 163

Lot 163
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Exceptional set of two tapestries - Lot 163
Exceptional set of two tapestries Pair of windows From the manufacture of Gobelins Around 1710. Period louis XIV According to a model of Claude III AUDRAN (known as the young person: 1658-1734), Antoine Watteau and Alexandre -Francois Desportes Decorated with grotesques and said months of the seasons Dimensions : 239 cm high x 063 cm wide In wool, silk and metal Oxidations and natural wears, some restorations. 1) the first one on the left : the month of September . Libra and Vulcan, the lower part animated by monkeys hammering on an anvil. And the second. On the right: the month of March Aries and Mars, the canopy topped by a military trophy, and a wolf attacking a dog in the lower part. Bibliography: P. Verlet, M.Florisoone, A.Hoffmeister, F.Tabard, the tapestry, history and technique of the XIVth to XXth century Claude III AUDRAN realized these cartoons in 1708/1709 for the hanging woven in Gobelins for the apartments of the dauphin in the castle of Meudon. Two pieces are preserved in the national furniture: one representing January, February, March and the month of April to September. The third representing October, November, December to disappear
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