French Tapestries and Textiles in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Charissa Bremer-David

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Getty Publications
24 July 1997

History of Art & Design Styles; Textile artworks: tapestries, hangings & quilts; Reference works; Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides

Series: Getty Publications - (Yale)

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.

By: Charissa Bremer-David
Imprint: Getty Publications
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 310mm, Width: 237mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 1.290kg
ISBN: 9780892363797
ISBN 10: 0892363797
Series: Getty Publications - (Yale)
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 24 July 1997
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Charissa Bremer-David retired in 2020 from her role as curator in the Department of Decorative Arts at the J. Paul Getty Museum.