Coypel's Don Quixote Tapestries
Subtitle: Illustrating a Spanish Novel in Eighteenth-Century France
Publisher: The Frick Collection
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 95
ISBN-13: 9780912114620
Description: "The Frick Collection's holdings are graced with two rare Flemish tapestries depicting scenes from the story of Don Quixote....Made around 1730-40 in the Brussels workshop of Peter van den Hecke, these tapestries were inspired by engravings made after twenty-eight cartoons by Charles Coypel, first painter to Louis XV, that were originally woven at the renowned Gobelins Tapestry Manufactory....Although Flemish in origin, the Frick tapestries are recorded as being in the French royal collection from 1749 to at least 1775...."--Acknowledgments, p. 12.
Notes: Source title: Coypel's Don Quixote Tapestries: Illustrating a Spanish Novel in Eighteenth-Century France