Alceste. Coypel, Charles-Antoine (French, 1694-1752) (author of design & cartoon creator for center scene & alentour) [painter] Belle, Clément-Louis-Marie-Anne (French, 1722-1806) (author of design, coat of arms in alentour) [painter] Audran, Michel (French, ) (workshop) [weaver] (French) 1771-1773 Tapestry Dimensions: H 13'5" x W 9'6" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Paris Ownership History: Magasin des Gobelins. Given to King Gustav III by Louis XVI (1784). Royal coll., Stockholm (). Hôtel du Ministre de Suède, Paris (). French
Alceste. Coypel, Charles-Antoine (French, 1694-1752) (author of design & cartoon creator for center scene & alentour) [painter] Belle, Clément-Louis-Marie-Anne (French, 1722-1806) (author of design, coat of arms in alentour) [painter] Audran, Michel (French, ) (workshop) [weaver] (French) 1771-1773 Tapestry Dimensions: H 13'5" x W 9'6" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Paris Ownership History: Magasin des Gobelins. Given to King Gustav III by Louis XVI (1784). Royal coll., Stockholm (). Hôtel du Ministre de Suède, Paris (). French & Co. Sweden, Stockholm, Stockholm, Kungliga Husgerådskammaren, accno. 179. Inscriptions: On pedestal, lower center: L'ALCESTE / DE QUINAVT / In the gallery of a palace, Hercules (Heracles/Herakles) stands in center & reunites Admete with his wife Alceste as onlookers on L & R watch in amazement; scene enclosed by fluted oval cartouche (ALENTOUR) fluted oval cartouche on patterned background & decorated with floral garlands, with crowned arms of the king of France at top center; marble pedestal with theatrical mask & hung with lambrequin bearing inscription at bottom 5th weaving. Illustrates act 5, scene 4 of Quinault's tragedy Alceste. No French & Co. stock sheet in archive, no stock number Fénaille, Gobelins 4 (1903-1923), 139-69 Göbel, Wandteppiche II:1 (1928), 167-68 Göbel, Wandteppiche II:2 (1928), pl. 154 Böttiger, Svenska statens samling (1895), 57-59 Related Works: Compositionally similar set: GCPA 0242064-0242065, 0242070-0242072 (Louvre set)
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