AUBUSSON

Lot 44
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8000 - 12000 EUR
AUBUSSON
Panel of Tapestry diverted, from the Royal Manufacture of Aubusson, end of the 17th century, in the spirit of the paintings of Nicolas Poussin (1594 - 1665). According to the story of ""Moses saved from the waters"". Probably tapestry of woodwork. In wool and silk. Maintenance restorations. Good general condition. Ht. 230cm - Width 300cm. History : This panel belongs to the series of hangings from the life of Moses according to the cartoons of Isaac MOILLON (1614-1673), painting of the King. Only three panels are known, one of which is classified M.H. and presented at the Notre-Dame-de-la-Couture church. On the death of Jean-Baptiste Colbert in 1683, the new superintendent of the King's Buildings, François Michel Le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois (1641-1691), imposed a different stylistic and iconographic orientation on the Gobelins factory by abandoning the weaving of Charles Le Brun's famous hangings (Alexandre, Histoire du Roi). From then on, the royal workshops undertook a new hanging, composed of ten tapestries, on the story of Moses based on eight paintings by Nicolas Poussin, then considered the greatest French painter, and two by Le Brun, the King's first painter. This hanging certainly magnified the master's work; it also testified to the richness of the King's Cabinet, the supremacy of the Moderns over the Ancients and that of the French school over its Italian counterpart. Source: Catalogue of the "Poussin and Moses" Exhibition. From drawing to tapestry". Museum of Fine Arts of Bordeaux, 2012
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