18th Century
By the turn of the 18th century the French court led fashionable taste and, apart from tapestries for public places, there was a move away from the former imposing and over-scale designs. Ornamental tapestries such as grotesques and armorials grew in popularity. In general there was a preference for smaller scale figures and more intimate designs. The range of designs widened to include chinoiserie, and designs of country life after David Teniers II (1610-1690), games, and sports as well as reinterpreting classical and mythological stories, and of course recording contemporary history. Landscape design also evolved, strongly influenced by the realism of Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755), as well as an appetite for the exotic with depictions of scenes from the East.
The Encampment
Price on application
From an allegorical series The Art of War, also known as Scenes of Military Life
Woven in the workshops of Jermone LeClerc (signed)
Brussels, circa 1710
14ft 8in width x 10ft 4in height
4.47m x 3.15m
-
Chinoiserie Landscape Tapestry
Price on application
Aubusson, circa 1730
8ft 0in width x 9ft 7in height
2.44m x 2.92m -
"Berainesque" Entre-fenêtre Tapestry
Price on application
From the series Grotesques de Berain
After designs by Jean Baptiste Monnoyer (1636-1699)
Beauvais, 18th Century
3ft 6in width x 10ft 3in height
1.07m x 3.12m
