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Signature
Post Con.- Detail, upper right 1/4
Post Con.- Detail, upper left 1/4
Post Con.- Detail, lower right 1/4
Post Con.- Detail, lower left 1/4
Post Con.- Detail, chateau in middle ground
Post Con.- Detail, violin with sheet music
Post Con.- Detail, horsemen with dog down on its side
Post Con.- Detail, two servants holding carpet
Post Con.- Detail, upper cartouche with pendant zodiac sign of capricorn
Post Con.- Detail, bird (buzzard) standing at lower left
Post Con.- Detail, lower cartouche with the name of the chateau
Château of Monceaux / Month of December
Design conceived by Charles Le Brun , about 1665- by 1668 (French, 1619 - 1690)
Cartoon for the horizontal-warp loom painted collaboratively by Joseph Yvart , (French, 1649 - 1728)
Abraham Genoels , (Flemish, about 1640 - 1723)
Adriaen-Frans Boudewyns (called Baudoin) , (Flemish, 1644 - 1711)
François Bonnemer , (French, 1637 - 1689)
Jean-Baptiste Martin (called Martin des Batailles) (French, 1659 - 1735)
and Various makers , about 1668
Royal Factory of Furniture to the Crown at the Gobelins Manufactory , (French, founded 1662)
in the horizontal-loom workshop of Jean de la Croix (French, died 1714)
French
Gobelins, France (Place Created)
before 1712
Wool and silk
85.DD.309
317.5 × 330.8 cm (125 × 130 1/4 in.)
This is one of a series of twelve tapestries, each of which shows an astrological sign for a month with a French royal palace in the background. The month of December shows the Château of Monceaux (demolished in 1799, during the French Revolution) through the bare trees. On the left, Louis XIV leads a hunting party with horsemen and hounds after a wild boar. In the center of the top border, the astrological sign of Capricorn hangs between garlands of winter fruit and vegetables. In the foreground, two liveried pages drape a rare Near Eastern carpet over the balustrade, while a moorhen, crane, and bustard—birds from the royal menagerie—strut along the front.
Abraham-Behor de Camondo, comte, 1829 - 1889
or his son, Isaac de Camondo, comte, French, 1851 - 1911 (Paris, France) [sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, February 1-3, 1893, lot 291, for 37,300 francs]
Gaston Menier (Paris, France) [sold, Galerie Jean Charpentier, Paris, November 24, 1936, lot 111]
Baron Gendebien-Salvay (Belgium)
Vincent Laloux (Brussels, Belgium), sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1985.
Guiffrey, Jules. Histoire de la tapisserie depuis le Moyen Âge jusqu'à nos jours (Tours: Alfred Mame, 1886), p. 361, ill.
"Revue des Ventes." Le Journal des arts (February 4, 1893), pp. 3-4.
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Bremer-David, Charissa. "Tapestry 'Le Château de Monceaux' from the series Les Maisons Royales." The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 14 (1986), pp. 105-12, figs. 1a-b.
Boccara, Jacqueline. Ames de Laine et de Soie (Saint-Just-en-Chausée: Editions d'art Monelle Hayot, 1988), pp. 207, 209, ill.
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The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections. 3rd ed. (Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1991), pp. 162-63.
Standen, Edith A. "The Garden of the Sun King: A Gobelins Tapestry in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts." Arts in Virginia 30 (Fall/Winter 1992-93), p. 8.
The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections. 4th ed. (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997), p. 194, ill.
The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections. 6th ed. (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2001), p. 194, ill.
Jolly, Anna. Seidengewebe des 18. Jahrhunderts. Vol. 2, Naturalismus (Riggisberg: Abegg-Stiftung, 2002), p. 25n98, fig. 7.
Leben, Ulrich. Object Design in the Age of Enlightenment: The History of the Royal Free Drawing School in Paris (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2004), p. 15, ill.
Wilson, Gillian, et al. French Furniture and Gilt Bronzes: Baroque and Régence: Catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum Collection (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2008), pp. 374-75, fig. 23.
Bremer-David, Charissa. Woven Gold: Tapestries of Louis XIV, exh. cat. (Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2015), pp. 115-21, no. 11c, ill.
