Lot n° 83
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Manufacture des Gobelins after Alexandre-François Desportes, - Lot 83
Manufacture des Gobelins after Alexandre-François Desportes, 18th century
Game, flowers, fruit and a dog and Dead game, vegetables,
fruit and two dogs
Pair of tapestries in a gilded wood frame,
based on two paintings by Desportes produced in
1712 in the Musée du Louvre (INV 3938 ;
INV 3937)
In a Second Empire frame, both bearing the words
the words "Donné par l'Empereur Napoléon III à S.E
Monsieur Achille Fould".
H. 177 cm x 128 cm (at sight)
(Accidents and restorations)
Provenance: Achille Fould (1800-1867), Minister of the Household of
of Emperor Napoleon III from 1852 to 1860, then Minister of Finance
from 1861 to 1867 and Senator for the Hautes-Pyrénées.
Literature: Two tapestries after Alexandre-François Desportes were
were woven at the Moscow Imperial Manufactory and are now
Hermitage Museum (similar dimensions).
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