French Tapestries and Textiles is a survey of the Getty Museum's
seventeenth-and eighteenth-century French textiles-one of the
world's finest collections. Featuring twenty-five extraordinary
tapestries woven at the Gobelins and Beauvais manufactories, the
catalogue also highlights three carpets, two knotted-pile screens,
and two sets of embroidered bed hangings, one of which is the only
complete lit a la duchesse surviving from the period. Among the
magnificent textiles discussed in this lavish volume are the
Emperor of China tapestry series, the whimsical Story of Don
Quixote, and Boucher's cycle The Story of Psyche. A gatefold in the
book opens to reveal a photograph of the stately twenty-nine-foot
carpet commissioned for Louis XIV's Galerie du Bord de l'Eau at the
Louvre, a piece not publicly displayed for more than 120 years.
Each entry includes a listing of artists and weavers, date and
place of manufacture, and materials and techniques used, followed
by a complete description and a condition statement. The
accompanying commentary provides information on the literary,
historical, and visual source of design imagery as well as the
context of the textile's commission and production. In addition,
each textile shown has a complete provenance, exhibition history,
and bibliography. For lovers of French decorative arts and
connoisseurs of textiles, this book offers a study both of the art
of tapestry- and textile-making and of the aesthetic tradition
exemplified by these remarkable objects.
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