Live Auction 14219Noble & Private Collections Part I
A LOUIS XV MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY
Lot 90 PROPERTY FROM A SPANISH PRIVATE COLLECTION (Lots 86-93)

A LOUIS XV MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY

BY PIERRE-FRANCOIS COZETTE, GOBELINS, FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY, AFTER CHARLES DE LA FOSSE

Closed25 April 2017

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GBP 15,000

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A LOUIS XV MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY
BY PIERRE-FRANCOIS COZETTE, GOBELINS, FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY, AFTER CHARLES DE LA FOSSE
Depicting Argus, Acis and Galatea, from Ovid's Metamorphoses, within a picture frame border and blue outer slip, signed 'Gs COZETTE'
10 ft. 1 in. (308 cm.) high; 7 ft. 4 in. (224 cm.) wide

Specialist note

After the painting by Charles de la Fosse now in the Prado, Madrid. Further versions can be found in the collection of the Rijksmuseum and another one sold at Christie’s King Street, 15 Nov 2001.