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Two Louis XIV Savonnerie sewn carpet fragments Circa 1677, workshop of Pierre Dupont, probably from the Galerie du Bord de l'Eau, Palais du Louvre, image 1
Two Louis XIV Savonnerie sewn carpet fragments Circa 1677, workshop of Pierre Dupont, probably from the Galerie du Bord de l'Eau, Palais du Louvre, image 2
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Two Louis XIV Savonnerie sewn carpet fragments
Circa 1677, workshop of Pierre Dupont, probably from the Galerie du Bord de l'Eau, Palais du Louvre,

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1 July 2025, 14:00 BST
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Two Louis XIV Savonnerie sewn carpet fragments

Circa 1677, workshop of Pierre Dupont, probably from the Galerie du Bord de l'Eau, Palais du Louvre,
Designed with fallow deer heads on brown ground, surrounded by scrolling acanthus leaves and foliage, 216cm x 82cm

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Provenance
Probably fragments from the 43rd carpet of the Galerie du Bord de l'Eau, Palais du Louvre, Paris.
House sale, sold Christie's, 1999.
Sotheby's Paris, Excellence, 13 November 2018, Lot 11.

These two fragments are part of the 43rd tapestry along the Louvre's Grande Galerie, the so-called Galerie du Bord de l'Eau, described in the Garde-Meuble:

"No. 184 La Chasse (The Hunt). The forty-third: a tapestry with a brown background, depicting a deer's head and scrollwork at each of the four corners, on which there is a large white compartment and another smaller compartment with twelve canted sides in the middle surrounded by festooned ribbons, having in the middle a sunflower surrounded by flowers, at the side of mentioned compartment are two stag heads against a linen grey background with hunting tools, and two landscapes at both ends, 7a ½ by 2a 5/6 wide ".

The 93 tapestries along the Grande Galerie that connected the Louvre to the Tuileries were designed by Charles Lebrun and Louis Le Vau. They were then woven by the manufacture Royale de tapisseries -the Savonnerie. During the French Revolution these tapestries became a bargaining chip for suppliers such as Bourdillon in An V, who obtained the 43rd one. It seems that it was taken by the Directoire, but removed from the collections where it was found in 1937. Sadly it was then cut then re-assembled.

Literature
J. Guiffrey, Inventaire Général du Mobilier de la Couronne sous Louis XIV. 1663-1715, Paris, 1885
P. Verlet, The Savonnerie. The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, London, 1982, p. 485 and p. 537

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