Du plancher aux cimaises: des tapis pour les murs?: La manufacture de la Savonnerie et le décor mural officiel sous la Troisième République (1870-1890)

• Autores: Zané Purmale
• Localización: Revue de l'art, ISSN 0035-1326, Nº. 211, 2021, págs. 56-71
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • Assembled in the Manufacture des Gobelins in 1825, the carpet workshop of the Savonnerie saw its production marginalized with the instauration of the Third Republic: too fragile, too luxurious, they hardly seemed adapted to the practices of the new regime. The administrator of the Manufacture des Tapisseries des Gobelins and of the Tapis de la Savonnerie, Alfred Darcel decided to employ the workers of the Savonnerrie in the fabrication of wall hangings while waiting for the workshop to progressively disappear. Three sumptuous decorations thus saw the light: two hangings after the cartoons of Charles Lemeire for the church of Saint Genevieve (Pantheon) and for the Elysée Palace and a hanging after Jean-Baptiste Lavastre for the Bibliothèque Nationale. This study seeks to examine and to make known this unpublished production, corresponding to an ephemeral but unique interlude in the history of wall hangings.