Carpet (Music)
Maker
Savonnerie Manufactory
(1627 - 2001)
Additional Title(s)
- La Musique
ClassificationsDECORATIVE ARTS
Date1670- 1687
Mediumwool, linen, and bast; with repairs and later inserts in wool, cotton, and linen.
Dimensions188 x 320 in. (477.5 x 812.8 cm.)
DescriptionThe carpet is decorated at its center with a complex geometrical motif including vegetal and floral decorative elements, cartouches, and trophies on a ground of foliated scrolls. At both ends of the carpet are reserves with allegorical figures.
Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Label TextBought by Henry Huntington from the collection of banker J. Pierpont Morgan, this carpet is from a series of ninety-three originally woven for Louis XIV to line the floor of the Grand Galerie of the Louvre palace. Its design draws upon a complex mixture of emblems to convey the king’s accomplishments in the realms of art and science. On this carpet, music is embodied through depictions of the muses of poetry and music.Status
On viewObject number15.3
Savonnerie Manufactory
1719/84; frame of later date (probably nineteenth-century).
Object number: 11.41
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Gobelins Tapestry Manufactory
Tapestry woven covers ca. 1779; frames of nineteenth-century before 1892; modern
Object number: 9.27