A REGENCE BEAUVAIS TAPESTRY PANEL

CIRCA 1720

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A REGENCE BEAUVAIS TAPESTRY PANEL
Circa 1720
Depicting Venus at her toilet, with Cupid and another attendant by her side beneath a lambrequin canopy flanked by flowering trees, in an associated early Louis XV giltwood frame carved with foliate-tied reeded borders and stiff-leaf slip enclosing a sanded ground, the tapestry panel probably orginally intended for a firescreen, with handwritten label on the frame inscribed 'cadre du lot' and further inscribed 'no. 29'
27 x 22in. (68.5 x 57cm.) (including frame)

来源

F. Gurault, 3 rue Roquepine, Paris, sold at Mes. Belier and Ancel, Paris, 21 March 1935, lot 133 (bought by Bensimon).

拍品专文

An identical tapestry panel, retaining its original borders and set within a Louis XVI giltwood firesceen, was supplied by Haur, Boulard and Gurin for the Bains du Roi at Compigne in 1785, at a cost of 96 livres. Sold by L. Neumann, Esq. of 11 Grosvenor Square, Christie's London, 2 July 1919, lot 76, it is now in the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (Objets d'Art Franais de la Collection Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 1969, no.8).