BRUSSELS Very important and exceptional... - Lot 41 - FEE - Stanislas Machoïr

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BRUSSELS Very important and exceptional... - Lot 41 - FEE - Stanislas Machoïr
BRUSSELS Very important and exceptional Brussels Tapestry (Flanders). Late 17th - early 18th century The Extreme Unction after a carton of Nicolas POUSSIN (1594-1665) In silk and wool. Extremely rare state of conservation. Remarkable freshness of colors. Beautiful polychromy. Borders with gilded wood frames, reminiscent of the mouldings of picture frames. Height 335cm - Width 325cm History: Protected by Cardinal Barberini, Nicolas Poussin, on his advice, painted in 1630 the Plague of the Philistines (Louvre Museum) later bought by the Duke of Richelieu, the Destruction of Jerusalem, the Idol of Dagon, the Death of Germanicus and the Martyrdom of Saint Erasmus, now in the Vatican, and, always anxious to do better, he studied the writings of Leonardo da Vinci. He painted the Adoration of the Golden Calf and the Passage of the Red Sea for the Marquis Amedeo del Pozzo, and the Striking of the Rock for his friend Stella, a subject he repeated several times, and then a first suite of the Seven Sacraments for the Commander Cassiano del Pozzo, four Bacchanals for Richelieu, and a Triumph of Bacchus with a Triumph of Neptune, in which he imitated ancient bas-reliefs. POUSSIN will make 8 cartoons to be executed in tapestry for the king's apartments, and he is in charge of the decoration of the great gallery of the Louvre, for which he conceives the project of covering the vault with the mouldings of the bas-reliefs of the Trajan column: Errard is sent to Rome to bring back mouldings and drawings. But jealous, harassed, and at the mercy of the combined intrigues of Simon Vouet, Fenquières and the architect Mercier, Poussin left France, and, returning to Rome in 1642, where he was triumphantly received, he worked there for twenty-three years without turning his back, always attached to his country and sought after by it, painting for M. de Chantelou the second suite of the Trajan column. de Chantelou the second suite of the Sacraments, which he completed in 1648, modelling Termes for Fouquet's castle and composing for the Duke of Richelieu his last work, the Four Seasons, now in the Louvre, which he worked on from 1660 to 1664.
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