US EditionCity Life Org - Met Exhibition to Showcase Monumental Carpets Created for King Louis XIV of France
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The Treasure found from the Sun King, under the Nef of the Grand Palais, reconstructs, on a sensitive plane, a political and aesthetic intention with an exceptional meeting of monumental carpets commissioned in 1668 to dress the gallery linking the Louvre to the Palais des Tuileries (now extinct). Designed to accompany the passage of the guests, these carpets were to make the ground a stage, a ceremony, of ornamentation a demonstration. The orde…
For the first time, the monumental carpets commissioned by Louis XIV will be gathered at the Grand Palais. A royal masterpiece unveiled for only one week.
City Life Org - Met Exhibition to Showcase Monumental Carpets Created for King Louis XIV of France
Grande Galerie carpet with landscapes (detail), Savonnerie Manufactory, after designs by Charles Le Brun, 1680. Knotted and cut wool pile (symmetrical knot), overall (confirmed): H. 353 x W. 128 in. (896.6 x 325.1 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1976 (1976.155.114) A King’s Carpet will be the…
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