Two rare large tapestry paintings after Alexandre François Desportes (1661-1743)
Paris, Manufacture royale des Gobelins, 1844-1849, with an extension added at the top in 1857
Wool and silk (Game, Flowers and Fruit, horizontal warp – Game and Fruit, vertical warp)
177 x 128 cm (70 x 50 in) each

147 x 236 cm (57 ⁷/₈ x 92 ⁷/₈ inches)

Southern Netherlands,
Probably mid-sixteenth century
Wool and silk
335 x 431 cm (131 ⁷/₈ x 169 ³/₄ inches)

Alexander Calder (1898-1976), signed lower right corner
Aubusson, atelier Pinton, monogram lower left corner
Ca. 1970
Edition 4/6 – woven label on the verso
Wool and synthetic thread
200 x 132 cm (78 ³/₄ x 52 inches)

Southern Netherlands, probably Enghien
1525-1550
Wool and silk
250 x 243 cm

From the series 'The History of Diana'
Bruges (city mark in the right border)
Mid-seventeenth century
Wool and silk
345 x 384 cm (135 ⁷/₈ x 151 ¹/₈ inches)

After models by Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (1636-1699)
Manufacture royale de Beauvais
Ca. 1690-1730
Wool and silk
286 x 334 cm (112.6 x 131.5 inch)

From the series of Ovid’s Metamorphoses
After Louis de Boullogne (1654-1733)
Paris, Gobelins
About 1740
Wool and silk
(319 x 275 cm)

Victor Vasarely (1906–1997), signed lower right corner
Aubusson, atelier Pinton, signed lower left corner, 1972
Edition 1/6 - woven on the reverse
156 x 156 cm (61 ³/₈ x 61 ³/₈ inches)