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French Tapestries and Textiles in the J. Paul Getty Museum

French Tapestries and Textiles in the J. Paul Getty Museum

$90.00 at The Getty Museum.

Charissa Bremer-David French Tapestries and Textiles is a survey of the J. Paul 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 manufactories, 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. Among the magnificent textiles discussed…