ID: 700000069 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000069	Record Type: Conceptual

Les anciennes Indes (tapestries; Gobelins Tapestry Manufactory (French, active from 1662 to t...; 1687/1730)

Note: Series of tapestries, woven by Gobelins at least 8 times between 1687 and 1730. The first 2 sets were woven on low-warp looms. The cartoons were repaired for use in the high-warp workshops in 1692/1693. Some compositions were altered. In 1687 the French royal Gobelins manufactory began weaving the series of eight tapestries now known as "Les Anciennes Indes." The hangings were Le Cheval Rayée, Les Deux Taureaux, L'Eléphant (or Le Cheval Isabelle), Le Chasseur Indien, Le Combat d'Animaux, Le Roi Porté par Deux Maures, Le Cheval Pommelé (or L'Indien à Cheval), and Les Pecheurs. Each tapestry is composed of a foreground with fish and animals and occasionally humans, a middle ground of plants and trees with birds, and a background of distant panorama. The cartoons for eight subjects had been prepared earlier by two Dutch artists, Albert Eckhout and Frans Post. These cartoons, and other drawings and paintings, were given to Louis XIV in 1679, and eventually resulted in the creation of the tapestries.

Titles:

Les anciennes Indes (preferred,C,U,French-P,U,U,English-P,L,U)

Catalog Level: series

Work Types:

tapestries [300205002] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Furnishings (hierarchy name), furnishings (works), <furnishings by form or function>, coverings and hangings, <coverings and hangings by specific type>, <coverings and hangings by location or context>, <coverings and hangings for surface elements>, wall hangings)

Classifications:

decorative arts (preferred)

European art

textiles

Creation Date: 1687/1730

Creator Display:

Gobelins Tapestry Manufactory (French, active from 1662 to the present) [preferred,VP]

manufactory Gobelins Tapestry Manufactory (French tapestry manufactory, active from 1662 to the present) [500034110]

Locations:

Other: Creation: Paris [7008038] Île-de-France (region (administrative division)), France (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Not Applicable:

Display Materials: wool and silk

	wool (textile) [300243430]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by composition or origin>)

	silk (textile) [300243428]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by composition or origin>)

	weaving [300053642]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <additive and joining processes and techniques>, assembling (additive and joining process))

Dimensions: undetermined

Cultures:

French (preferred)

General Subject:

utilitarian objects (preferred)

botanical

animals

travel

Specific Subjects:

	flora (plants) [300310152]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Plantae (kingdom)) (AAT)

	fauna [300310150]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom)) (AAT)

	Dutch Brazil [8712054]
	.....(Brazil (nation), South America (continent), World (facet)) (TGN)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Conceptual Works

.......... Conceptual Works by class: for movable works

Sources and Contributors:
Les anciennes Indes	........ [VP]
	........ Bremer-David, Le Cheval Rayé (1994)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Bremer-David, Le Cheval Rayé (1994)