Tapisserie gobelins louis xiv biography
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Charles Le Brun, The marriage of Louis XIV in Saint Jean de Luz, Gobelins, Mobilier National, photos Isabelle Bideau
What Louis XIV’s minister Jean Baptiste Colbert and royal painter Charles Le Brun achieved at the height of the Sun king’s reign is exceptional and the exhibition at Manufacture des Gobelins gives us an idea of the luxury cultivated at court at the Louvre, first and then in Versailles. Tapestries created at la Savonnerie in Chaillot, at the Gobelins and in Beauvais, North of Paris, are exhibited until December 4 th. It is a unique occasion to see the marriage of Louis XIV th which is usually at the French Embassy in Madrid and the 9 meter long carpet which used to be at the Elysée palace, in the President’s office.
Charles Le Brun, Carpet for the Grande galerie of the Louvre, 1679, Savonnerie, ©Mobilier national, photos Isabelle Bidea
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Colbert Visiting the Gobelins, Sébastien Leclerc inom (French, Metz 1637–1714 Paris) 1665
This etching illustrates a visit to the Gobelins workshops bygd Colbert dem Villacerf, Surintendant des Bâtiments du Roi from 1691 to 1699. The workers are in the process of hanging one of a set of tapestries depicting the Story of Alexander, woven for Louis XIV after designs bygd Charles Le Brun.
In brief – About Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins (Tripadvisor)
The National Furniture ledning and the National Tapestry and Carpet Manufactories have brought tillsammans at the Gobelins site four historic institutions that date back to the 17th century: The National Furniture Collection, the Gobelins Tapestry Manufactory, The Beauvais Tapestry Manufactory (some of the workshops are also located in Beauvais), and La Savonnerie Carpet Manufactory.The exhibition space known as “La Galerie des Gobelins” welcomes temporary exhibitions.
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Manufacture des Gobelins – The Gobelins Tapestry Factory In Paris
The Gobelins Tapestry Factory supplied the court of the French monarchs from the time Louis XIV. In fact, the factory, the avenue, the Metro station, and the Latin Quarter neighborhood all take their name from the Gobelins brothers, who in the 15th century established their famous dye works on the banks of the Bievre River about at the border of the current 5th and 13th Arrondissements. (Today the river is mostly covered over.)
Today, the Gobelin Paris factory is part of the French Ministry of Culture and still produces tapestries. The complex also houses the Galerie des Gobelins with temporary exhibitions of tapestries, furniture and objets from the Mobilier National (the state furniture collection). When you take a guided tour you're actually watching trained artisans at work. Weavers still use age-old techniques and century-old wooden looms to create modern tapestries.