Lot n° 358
Estimation :
3000 - 5000
EUR
Important tapestry from the Royal Aubusson Manufactory - Lot 358
Important tapestry from the Royal Aubusson Manufactory
La diseuse de bonne Aventure in wool and silk, with remarkably fresh colors, decorated with a two-themed scene, the fortune teller and a pastoral scene on the right. A country worker rests on the left, dozing, in the center a washerwoman or salt worker near the fortune teller (very colorful) and on the right, we see a pastoral scene surrounded by beautiful vegetation.
Polychrome garlands of flowers and foliage.
A similar tapestry is in the collections of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg (fig251, inventory T-16076).
France, 2nd part of the 18th century
H. 272 cm L. 348 cm
Maintenance restorations
Source: Aubusson, Tapisseries des lumières
Splendor of the royal manufacture, supplier to Europe in the 18th century
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