French Tapestries & Textiles in the J. Paul Getty Museum

by Charissa Bremer-David

This lavishly-illustrated book is a survey of the Getty Museum's seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French textiles--one of the world's finest collections. Featuring twenty-five extraordinary tapestries woven at the Gobelins and Beauvais manufacturies, the catalogue also highlights three carpets, two knotted-pile screens, and two sets of embroidered bed hangings, one of which is the only complete lit la duchesse surviving from the period. Each...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892363797
• ISBN13: 9780892363797
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.3" x 12.3"