STYLE: Furniture, Silver, Ceramics
STYLE: Furniture, Silver, Ceramics
Property from the Collection of Bernard & Josephine Chaus
A LOUIS XVI ALLEGORICAL 'GROTESQUE' TAPESTRY, PROBABLY GOBELINS LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Auction Closed
October 25, 08:20 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Collection of Bernard & Josephine Chaus
A LOUIS XVI ALLEGORICAL 'GROTESQUE' TAPESTRY, PROBABLY GOBELINS
LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
now mounted on stretched canvas
8 ft¼ in. by 8 ft. 8½ in.; 2.47 m. by 2.65 m.
Previously described as Beauvais or Paris, designs for the present tapestry- - and the series of the 'Grotesques'- - were thought to have been based on Pompeiian wall paintings, a taste which enjoyed a revival in around 1770. Painters such as Zucchi and Pergolesi were proponents of this Neo-Pompeiian style, popular throughout Europe through the end of the 18th century.
A tapestry with similar designs and probably from the same workshop was sold in Sotheby's London 5 June 1964, lot 17.