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The Departure of the Ottoman Embassy from the Tuileries
Workshop of Le Febvre
Workshop director Matthieu Monmerqué French
After a design by Charles Parrocel French
In this tapestry woven after a painting by Parrocel, Mehmed Efendi, the Ottoman ambassador of 1721, processes through the Tuileries on horseback—accompanied by his entourage, flanked by ranks of French soldiers, and watched over by teeming Parisian crowds. Products from luxury goods makers were used to cultivate diplomatic relationships. The ambassador visited the Gobelins factory, where he saw skilled weavers working from painted models and commented on the naturalism and emotion of their woven human figures.
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