Live Auction 14219Noble & Private Collections Part I
A LOUIS XV MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY
Lot 183 PROPERTY OF A LADY (Lots 183 & 505)

A LOUIS XV MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY

BY FRANCOIS PICQUEAUX, AUBUSSON, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

Closed25 April 2017

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GBP 12,500

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A LOUIS XV MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY
BY FRANCOIS PICQUEAUX, AUBUSSON, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Depicting Zeus in the form of an eagle and a white bull, from 'The Story of Europe', signed '.picqveavx.' lacking borders
10 ft. 1 ½ in. (309 cm.) high; 13 ft. (397 cm.) wide

Acquired by Ogden Mills for the Hôtel de Broglie, 73 rue de Varenne, Paris.
Thence by descent.