The Triumph of Mordecai ca. 1736 Jean François de Troy French In 1736 de Troy undertook seven enormous preparatory designs (cartoons) for tapestries representing the Old Testament story of Esther, to be woven at the Gobelins tapestry manufactory. This preliminary oil sketch depicts Esther’s kinsman and adoptive father, Mordecai, riding triumphantly through the streets of Susa. De Troy’s final, full-scale cartoon, today in the Musée du Louvre, Paris, was completed in Rome, probably in 1739, and the first tapestry was woven between 1741 and The Triumph of Mordecai. Jean François de Troy (
The Triumph of Mordecai ca. 1736 Jean François de Troy French In 1736 de Troy undertook seven enormous preparatory designs (cartoons) for tapestries representing the Old Testament story of Esther, to be woven at the Gobelins tapestry manufactory. This preliminary oil sketch depicts Esther’s kinsman and adoptive father, Mordecai, riding triumphantly through the streets of Susa. De Troy’s final, full-scale cartoon, today in the Musée du Louvre, Paris, was completed in Rome, probably in 1739, and the first tapestry was woven between 1741 and The Triumph of Mordecai. Jean François de Troy (French, Paris 1679–1752 Rome). ca. 1736. Oil on canvas. Paintings
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