Scrolling Motif Autumn I Extra Long Wall Tapestry Wall Tapestries Superintendent of Finance for Louis

Superintendent of Finance for Louis XIV

The three scenes in this large wall tapestry are portraying the senses of hearing

eldest daughter of James I of Scotland kisses the poet Alain Chartier's lips for the beautiful things they had said - "la praecieuse bouche de laquelle sont issus et sortis tant de bons mots et vertueses sentences

and urns on a rustic stone table

Illustrating Lord Alfred Tennyson's 1883 poem

Scrolling Motif Autumn I Extra Long Wall Tapestry Wall Tapestries Superintendent of Finance for LouisA dark long and lean interpretation of French painter Jean Antoine Watteau's 18th Century vertical motifs which epitomize the aristocratic elegance of the French during the reign of Louis the XIV.