A Louis XVI Aubusson carpet in the Savonnerie manner, 1788-1789
Estimate
80,000 - 150,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
with a Pompeian-style motif on a black background, decorated with scrolls, chimeras, palms, rosettes, and floral friezes, with multiple blue and green borders
396 x 675 cm ; 156 x 265 ½ in
- Anne-Victoire Dervieux (1752–1826), dite "Mademoiselle Dervieux", circa 1788–1789, commissioned from the architect Bélanger for the music room of the townhouse on rue Chantereine, Paris;
- Count Philippe Vilain XIIII (1753–1810), by notarized sale on 21 May 1793;
- The actress Anne-Françoise Élisabeth Lange (1772–1816), in 1800;
- Hortense de Beauharnais and Louis Bonaparte, in 1802;
- Former collection of Charles de Beistegui (1895–1970), Yellow Drawing Room, Château de Groussay;
- Château de Groussay, Sotheby’s – Poulain Le Fur, 2 June 1999, lot 244.
Related literature :
R. Baschet, Mademoiselle Dervieux fille d’Opéra, 1943
R. Serrette, G. Wick et all, Y. Plouzennec « Les rêveries à l’antique de Bélanger et de son entourage, » in Vivre à l’antique de Marie-Antoinette à Napoléon Ier, Saint-Rémy-en-l’Eau, 2021