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A Set of Six French Tapestry Cartoons from Les Douze Mois Grotesques. Attributed to Claude Audran III (French, 1658-17... (Total: 6 Items)
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A Set of Six French Tapestry Cartoons from Les Douze Mois GrotesquesAttributed to Claude Audran III (French, 1658-1734), Paris, France
1708-09
Oil on canvas laid on panel
Unmarked
Each panel 94 in. high x 22.5 in. wide
Claude Audran III painted this series in 1708-09, while he was executing the decoration of the apartments of the Dauphin, later King Louis XV, at the Château de Meudon. An entry in the Comptes des Bâtiments indicates the creation of the series:
'Année 1709. Maison Royales. - Peinture: à Claude Audran, autre peintre, pour un tableau représentant un berceau où des singes sont à table; posé à Marly en 1709, 300 livres. A luy pour peintures faites aux Gobelins en 1708 et 1709, pour le nouveau batiment de Monseigneur à Meudon 495 livres'.
It was during the same period that the young Antoine Watteau, then around 24 years old, was working under Audran. It is probable that he collaborated on this project, while Alexandre-François Desportes supplied the animal figures. The present panels do not appear to have remained at Gobelins thereafter as they are not recorded in the detailed inventory taken at the workshop in 1736.
The actual tapestry series woven for the Dauphin, which contained gold and silver-thread, was divided into three panels, one with six joined panels and the other two with three joined panels each. That suite is today in the Mobilier National in Paris, with the exception of one of the smaller panels depicting October, November and December that was already noted missing in 1830.
Jean Audran, brother of the designer, subsequently engraved the cartoons in 1726, which were later copied by Gottfried Rogg of Augsburg in his 'Neues Unterschiedliches Bilderlaub und Grotetchgenwerk'. Interestingly the set executed for the Dauphin is extended at the top and includes a further ornament while the present lot corresponds in design to the engravings. The Dauphin Mois Grotesques set is the only listed suite of this subject recorded in the official records at the Royal Gobelins manufacture but further weavings are known to exist.
A complete set of the Tapestries of the Months, possibly the suite from the collection of Baron de Gunzbourg, was sold at Christie's, London, 21 June 2000, lot 180.
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