A large Royal Louis XVI silver-thread taffeta silk panel, circa 1782-1786, by the workshop of Camille Pernon, Lyon, commissionned by Jean-Démosthène Dugourc for the private apartments of Louis XVI
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Estimate
20,000 - 40,000 EUR
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Description
depicting a large bouquet of flowers (tulips, daisy, peonie, wysteria etc...) issuing from a vase with handles shaped as ram's heads, centred by a medallion with the monogram "LA" for Louis Auguste, surmounting an eagle with deployed wings, its claw with a fasces; (wears, tears, humidity stains in the lower part)
Haut. 203 cm, larg. 121 cm ; Height 80 in., width 47 5/8 in
Commissioned for the private apartments of Louis XVI at one of the royal residences, 1782–1786;
Galerie des Grands Meubles, Garde-Meuble de la Couronne, place Louis XV, Paris, circa 1787;
Baron Gustave de Rothschild (1829-1911) in his hôtel particulier, avenue de Marigny;
Baron Alain de Rothschild (1910-1982);
Within the family by descent until 2021
Related literature
De Dugourc à Pernon - Nouvelles acquisitions graphiques pour les musées, Musée historique des tissus, 1990
A. Poidebard et J. Chatel, Camille Pernon fabricant de soieries à Lyon sous Louis XIV et Napoléon Ier 1753-1808, Lyon, 1912
Anatole de Montaiglon, « Autobiographie de Dugourc », Nouvelles archives de l’art français, 1877, p. 367-371
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