AUBUSSON

Lot 36
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7000 - 12000 EUR
AUBUSSON
Tapestry panel from the Royal Manufacturers of Aubusson. 2nd part of the 18th century. Danae and Percée collected by Dictys Wool and silk. Tapestry (probably wood panelling tapestry). Nice freshness of colours, good general condition. Some maintenance restorations. Ht. 245cm - Width 375cm Register of the tapestry: Danaé's child having uttered a cry during a game, Acrislos discovered its existence. He killed the nurse and put his daughter and the infant in a wooden chest and threw it into the sea. The chest, which was swept away by the sea currents, arrived on the shore of one of the Cyclades, the island of Seriphos, where the two shipwrecked men were picked up by a fisherman named Dictys, brother of the local king named Polydectes. Repertoire of the Panel: 3 known pieces, 1 panel at the castle of Rozay in Cher (France), 1 fragment of the panel with border sold on April 8, 1993 in Paris-Drouot (France), 1 panel without border sold on December 14, 2004 in Paris-Drouot (France). This hanging originally consisted of 8 identified panels, even if a text from 1671 only mentions 7 of them. Even if few copies of this hanging are preserved, we know that it was woven after the cartoons of Isaac de Moillon (1614-1673), and that it appears in the inventory of 1671 of the maker of Aubusson, Jacques de Clairavaux. Apparently, Moillon's hanging is the only French hanging in the history of Perseus. History of Perce and Andromeda Perseus is the son of Danae, daughter of the king of Argos Acrisius. The latter, warned by an oracle that his grandson would kill him, locks his daughter in a tower of bronze, which does not prevent Zeus from seducing her in the form of a shower of gold. Thus Perseus is born in secre
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