Don Quixote consults the enchanted head. Coypel, Charles-Antoine (French, 1694-1752) (author of design) [painter] Valade, Jean (French, 1709-1787) (author of design, alentour) [painter] Cozette, Pierre-François (French, ) (workshop) [weaver] 1780 Tapestry Dimensions: H 365 x W 540 cm Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk Culture: French Weaving Center: Paris Ownership History: Given to Grand Duke Paul of Russia by Louis XVI (1782). Palais Anitchoff coll., St. Petersburg (). Russia, St. Petersburg, Pavlovsk, Pavlovsk Palace. Don Quixote leans on his staff, listening to
Don Quixote consults the enchanted head. Coypel, Charles-Antoine (French, 1694-1752) (author of design) [painter] Valade, Jean (French, 1709-1787) (author of design, alentour) [painter] Cozette, Pierre-François (French, ) (workshop) [weaver] 1780 Tapestry Dimensions: H 365 x W 540 cm Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk Culture: French Weaving Center: Paris Ownership History: Given to Grand Duke Paul of Russia by Louis XVI (1782). Palais Anitchoff coll., St. Petersburg (). Russia, St. Petersburg, Pavlovsk, Pavlovsk Palace. Don Quixote leans on his staff, listening to the bust of a Roman emperor on a table, as ladies & gentlemen look on; scene enclosed by picture-frame cartouche (ALENTOUR) patterned background with floral garlands & peacock; at bottom, console decorated with garlands, trophies, dog & sheep 8th weaving, 5th alentour. Fénaille, Gobelins 3 (1903-1923), 157-282 Göbel, Wandteppiche II:1 (1928), 117, 159-64 Pavlovsk: Palais et Parc (1976), 88, pl. 59-61 Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0242014-0242016, 0242023; compositionally similar sets: GCPA 0242043-0242046 (Louvre set), GCPA 0184492-084494, 0188339, 0189001-0189057, 0242012-0242013, 0242017, 0242042, 0242047 (Mackay set), GCPA 0139231-0139232, 0189076 (set A), GCPA 0242048, 0244394-0244395 (Getty set), GCPA 0242019-0242022 (Palazzo reale set), GCPA 0242038-0242022 (Palazzo Quirinale set), GCPA 0139241, 0242024-0242034 (Philadelphia set), GCPA 0182086, 0182092, 0182096, 0182098, 0189058-0189071, 0242310-0242313, 0242471 (Virginia set); compositionally similar tapestries (same cartoon): GCPA 0139233, 0242020, 0242039, 0242043, 0243411 (Aubusson)
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