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Grande Galerie carpet no. 73 (Landscapes)

Workshop director Woven in the workshop of Jeanne Haffrey (Veuve Lourdet) French
Designer After designs by Charles Le Brun French
Delivered December 23, 1680
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 525
Charles Le Brun’s design sequence alternated narrower carpets featuring landscapes at each end, such as this one, and wider carpets with depictions of allegorical bas-reliefs. Of all the Grande Galerie carpets in American public collections, this example is the best preserved. Used by the French ambassador to the Spanish court at Madrid, it escaped destruction during the French Revolution and ended up at the monastery in Santiago de Compostela, reemerging in the 1930s during the Spanish Civil War. Jayne Wrightsman, the prominent twentieth-century American collector of French decorative arts, bought the carpet in Paris in 1955 and presented it to The Met in 1976.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Grande Galerie carpet no. 73 (Landscapes)
  • Manufactory: Savonnerie Manufactory (Manufactory, established 1626; Manufacture Royale, established 1663)
  • Workshop director: Woven in the workshop of Jeanne Haffrey (Veuve Lourdet) (French, ca. 1640–1719)
  • Designer: After designs by Charles Le Brun (French, Paris 1619–1690 Paris) and studio
  • Date: Delivered December 23, 1680
  • Culture: French, Paris
  • Medium: Wool, knotted and cut pile (symmetrical knot, 90 knots per square inch)
  • Dimensions: Confirmed: 353 x 128 in. (896.6 x 325.1 cm)
  • Classification: Textiles-Rugs
  • Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1976
  • Object Number: 1976.155.114
  • Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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