Ball at Barcelona. Coypel, Charles-Antoine (French, 1694-1752) (author of design) [painter] Perrot, Pierre-Josse (French, ) (designed after, alentour) [painter] Cozette, Pierre-François (French, ) (workshop) [weaver] 1756-1758 Tapestry Dimensions: H 365 x W 470 cm Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk Culture: French Weaving Center: Paris Ownership History: Magasin des Gobelins. Given to the prince of Hesse-Darmstadt by Napoleon I (1810). Baron Gunzburg coll.; sold at Galerie Georges Petit (Paris), 1/30/1884, lot 2. Clarence Hungerford Mackay coll., Roslyn, NY (c
Ball at Barcelona. Coypel, Charles-Antoine (French, 1694-1752) (author of design) [painter] Perrot, Pierre-Josse (French, ) (designed after, alentour) [painter] Cozette, Pierre-François (French, ) (workshop) [weaver] 1756-1758 Tapestry Dimensions: H 365 x W 470 cm Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk Culture: French Weaving Center: Paris Ownership History: Magasin des Gobelins. Given to the prince of Hesse-Darmstadt by Napoleon I (1810). Baron Gunzburg coll.; sold at Galerie Georges Petit (Paris), 1/30/1884, lot 2. Clarence Hungerford Mackay coll., Roslyn, NY (). Mrs. Robert Z. Hawkins coll. (). French & Co. received on consignment from Mrs. Robert Hawkins 5/27/1965; returned 4/24/1967. Sold at Christie's (London), 6/22/1989 (lot 49). England, Greater London, London, Sotheby's, June 26, 1983, lot 320. Inscriptions: Woven signature in lower field, right: cozette 1758 [not visible in photograph] Inscriptions: Woven inscription on console in center field: DON QUICHOTTE ESTANT / A BARCELONNE DANSE AU / BAL QUE LUY DONNE / DOM ANTONIO At ball, don Quixote dances with 2 women (center), Sancho dances alone (R), & man plays guitar (L); scene enclosed by picture-frame cartouche (ALENTOUR) damask background with floral garlands & peacock; at bottom, fluted console decorated with flowers & shield 5th weaving, 4th alentour (called the Marly alentour). In the 19th century, this tapestry was joined with the 4 tapestries in the Mackay set. French & Co. stock sheet in archive, G-583-E Fénaille, Gobelins 3 (1903-1923), 157-282 Göbel, Wandteppiche II:1 (1928), 117, 159-64 Hunter, Practical book of Tapestries (1925), 181-84 Related Works: Compositionally similar tapestries (same cartoon): GCPA 0242022, 0242045
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