Wool and silk TAPESTRY depicting Armide standing before the - Lot 61

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Wool and silk TAPESTRY depicting Armide standing before the - Lot 61
Wool and silk TAPESTRY depicting Armide standing before the sleeping Renaud. The border consists of garlands of flowers and foliage, interspersed with cartouches featuring landscapes and attributes. Aubusson, 17th century Height: 295 cm Length: 295 cm (damage and restorations, lined) Episode from Canto XIV of Tasso’s *Jerusalem Delivered*: the sorceress Armide is diverted from her murderous intent toward the crusader Renaud by the intervention of Cupid. Provenance | Collection of Henri Dupuy de Lôme for his estate in the Var, then passed down through the family Biography | Stanislas Henri Laurent Dupuy de Lôme Engineer in the French Navy (Ploemeur 1816–Paris 1885). He built the first steamship, the *Napoléon* (1850), and the first armored frigate, the *Gloire* (1858), which served as a model for the navy of the Second Empire. Member of the Council of State and deputy for Morbihan. In 1870, he managed to get sixty airships out of besieged Paris. He had been a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1866. Expert at the Laurence Fligny Firm
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