STYLE: Private Collections
STYLE: Private Collections
Lot Closed
November 13, 11:48 AM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A French classical tapestry, 'Portia', from the series illustrious women of Antiquity, Aubusson,
second half 17th century, after Isaac Moillon
woven with Portia and her husband Brutus in a luxuriously decorated interior room setting, within a four-sided floral border
approximately 284cm high, 306cm wide
See Sylvain Laveissière and Nicole de Reyniès, Isaac Moillon (1614-1673). Un peintre du Roi à Aubusson, 2005, pp.292-293, for a comparable weaving in Chateau d’Ansouis (Vaucluse), within a more elaborate border design.