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Materials:
wools and silks
Measurements:
125.98 in. (320.00 cm.) (height) by 149.61 in. (380.00 cm.) (width)
Description:
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Literature:
E.A. Standen, 'The Story of the Emperor of China: A Beauvais Tapestry Series', Metropolitan Museum Journal, vol. 11, 1976, p. 111. J. Boccara, Ames de Laine et de Soie, Saint-Rémy-en-l'Eau, 1988, p. 314. N. de Pazzis-Chevalier, 'Gros Plan sur la Tapisserie Française aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles', Métiers d'Art: La Tapisserie, October - December 1992, p. 23. C. Bremer-David, French Tapestries & Textiles in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 1997, p. 95. COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: C. Bremer-David, 'Tapestries in the Wernher Collection', Apollo, May 2002, pp. 29 - 34. E. Standen, European Post-Medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985, vol. II, pp. 461 - 468. F. Windt, 'Die Audienz beim Kaiser von China', Jean II Barraband, Bildteppich, Potsdam, 2000.
Provenance:
From a private French collection, by family tradition acquired at the end of the 19th century.