Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and (14596848730)

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Title: Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers

Year: 1918 (1910s)

Authors: Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1927

Subjects: Embroidery Tapestry Textile fabrics Lace and lace making Wallpaper Decoration and ornament

Publisher: Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company Grand Rapids, The Dean-Hicks company

Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

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m into bankruptcy was thatMadame de Montespan had entrusted the factory established at Parisby Philip Behagle of Tournai, with the execution of the tapestriesafter Berain she was having made for her son, the Count of Toulouse,and that Hinarts best workmen left him to go with Behagle. How-ever that may be, when Hinart retired, Behagle succeeded him asproprietor of the Beauvais Tapestry Works, and made good from thefirst. Among important sets woven by him are the Conquests ofLouis the Great, rich with gold, two pieces of which are in the posses-sion of Signor Candido Cassini of Florence; the Acts of the Apos-tles, after Raphael, signed by Behagle and still preserved at theBeauvais Cathedral; the Adventures of Telemachus, in six pieces,after Arnault; the Story of Achilles, the Grotesques, on yellowground (Plate I), and the Marine Divinities, all after Berain; theBattles of the Swedish King, Charles XI, after Berain, a set richwith gold still preserved in the Royal Swedish collection. 297

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Plate IX—LE DEPIT AMOUREUXBeauvais tapestry designed by Oudry, formerly in the Morgan collection 298 GOBELINS, BEAUVAIS, MORTLAKE TAPESTRIES Although Behagle left the business in a flourishing conditionwhen he died in 1706, his widow and sons were not equal to the taskof keeping it up, and in 1711 were succeeded by the brothers Filleul,who, in 1722, were succeeded by Merou. The most important setoriginated under the brothers Filleul was the Chinese Set in sixpieces, after Vernansaal, Fontenay, and Dumons, one of which wasshown at the Buffalo Tapestry Exhibition. Neither the brothersFilleul nor Merou were able to make a success of the business, andin 1734 the latter retired in favor of Nicholas Besnier. OUDRY AND BOUCHER Besnier was a practical man of affairs who splendidly secondedthe artistic efforts of Jean Baptiste Oudry, whose appointment as artdirector of the Beauvais Tapestry Works in 1726 had been the mostimportant event of Merous administration. Any tapestry signedBesnier et

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