Portiere with the Chauvelin arms from a set called a Chancellerie
Claude Audran III|Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins|Etienne-Claude Le Blond|Louis XV, King of France
designed 1679 and 1700, borders ca. 1720, woven 1728–30 · Wool, silk (21-23 warps per inch, 8-9 per cm.) · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
In the center of the tapestry are the arms of France and Navarre within collars of orders of Saint Michel and Saint Esprit. In each corner of the borders are coats-of-arms. Described in heraldic terms as argent, head of wild cabbage sinople uprooted, stalk entwined by serpent or, head upraised, these are the armorials of Chauvelin des Grosbois et de Beauregard.
- Artist
- Claude Audran III|Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins|Etienne-Claude Le Blond|Louis XV, King of France
- Date
- designed 1679 and 1700, borders ca. 1720, woven 1728–30
- Medium
- Wool, silk (21-23 warps per inch, 8-9 per cm.)
- Culture
- French, Paris
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1962
