STYLE: Furniture, Silver, Ceramics

STYLE: Furniture, Silver, Ceramics

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 147. A LOUIS XIV BEAUVAIS ‘PORTS DE MER’ TAPESTRY, BY PHILIPPE BEHAGLE OR NOEL ANTOINE DE MEROU, BEAUVAIS, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY, AFTER A DESIGN BY ADRIEN CAMPION AND JOSEPH VAN DEN KERCHOVE.

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A LOUIS XIV BEAUVAIS ‘PORTS DE MER’ TAPESTRY, BY PHILIPPE BEHAGLE OR NOEL ANTOINE DE MEROU, BEAUVAIS, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY, AFTER A DESIGN BY ADRIEN CAMPION AND JOSEPH VAN DEN KERCHOVE

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October 21, 02:47 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

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Property from a Private Collection

A LOUIS XIV BEAUVAIS ‘PORTS DE MER’ TAPESTRY, BY PHILIPPE BEHAGLE OR NOEL ANTOINE DE MEROU, BEAUVAIS, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY, AFTER A DESIGN BY ADRIEN CAMPION AND JOSEPH VAN DEN KERCHOVE


9 ft. 9¼ in. by 12 ft. 5½ in.

2.98 m. by 3.8 m.

S. Franses, London

RELATED LITERATURE:

Jules Badin, La manufacture de tapisseries de Beauvais, Société de Propagation du Livre d’ Art, Paris, 1909

Heinrich Göbel, Wandteppiche II: Die romanischen lander I, Schmidt and Gunther, Leipzig, 1923, pp. 217-221, 512

Desmond Guisness, Irish Houses and Castles, Thames and Hudson, London, 1980, pp. 61-69

John. Cornforth, “Bantry House, County Cork, II,” Country Life, August 1989, vol. 3, pp. 58-61


The present fine tapestry belongs to a series that was initially inspired by the rich Menagerie of exotic animals at Versailles. Unfortunately very little is known about the original commission of the series but it appears that one of the first sets was supplied to the Swedish Royal Collection through Carl Piper in 1695 (now at Björnstorp Castle in Southern Sweden). A further set incorporating the arms of Chevalier d'Allonne (d. 1707) is at château Merlemont in the Picardie region of France.


This series was also featured among the acquisitions made by Louis XIV for his Château de Marly in 1696.