Identifier: decorativetextil00hunt (find matches)
Title: Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1927
Subjects: Textile fabrics Textile design Lace and lace making Embroidery Wallpaper Leatherwork Interior decoration Tapestry
Publisher: Philadelphia, London, J. B. Lippincott Company Grand Rapids, The Dean-Hicks Company
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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I.OUIS XV AND COYPEL Upon the death of Louis XIV in 171.5, he was succeeded by hisfive-year-old great-grandson Louis XV, during whose minority,Philip, Duke of Orleans, was Regent. Compared witli the age ofLouis XIV, the jjeriods of the Regency and of Louis X\ werefrivolous. In his youth Louis XI^^ had worshipped war and glory;in his old age, religion and the Church. During the reign of LouisXV the hearts and minds of men were less exalted and set more onthe joys of the present. Instead of the Story of the King afterLebrun, we have the Hunts of I^ouis XV after Oudry. Domesticand pastoral life was idealised, as in the story of Daphnis andChloe, designed by the Regent himself, assisted, some say, by CharlesCoypel. Another Regency set was the Iliad in five pieces, byAntoine and Charles Coypel. Of all eighteenth century Gobelin tapestries, the Don Quixoteseries in twenty-eight scenes, l)y Charles Coypel, was most achniredand most frequently rejiroduced. The first scene was designed by 293
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Plate VI THE TOILET OK ESTHKKhoiiis XV Gobelin tapestry designed by De Troy 294 GOBELINS, BP.AUVAIS, MORTLAKE TAPESTRIES Coypel in 171-t when he was l)arely twenty; the last, in 17.51, a fewyears before his death. Tlie frames f)f these Don Quixote tapestries,of whicli there are five perfect examples in the Metropolitan Museum,lent by Mrs. Dixon, are quite as important as the pictures and takeup much more room. Indeed, the pictures are but miniature medal-lions set in a decorative mat that is framed inside and outside withwoven gilt mouldings in imitation of wood. One of the five tapestrieswas presented by Napoleon in 1810 to the Prince of Hesse-Darm-stadt; the other four, by Eouis XVI. in ITTi, to the Archliishop ofRheims, who had baj^tised him, given him first communion, andmarried him, and who crowned him at Rheims the following year. Allfive were acquired by the late J. Pierpont Morgan from the estate ofDon Francisco dAssisi, grandfather of the present King of Spain. Other tajjcstr

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