History of the Chinese Emperor II French Wall Tapestry SIZE:58"W x 58"H One of the Renaissance masterpieces

One of the Renaissance masterpieces

He was born in Amsterdam and was known as one of the most prominent Dutch flower painters

Inspired by Claude Monet's The Bridge at Argenteuil this wall tapestry is a woven replica of the original work of art

After a set of large tapestries drawn by William Morris and Edward Burne- Jones and then woven in the workshops of Morris and Company (1890-1895)

History of the Chinese Emperor II French Wall Tapestry SIZE:58"W x 58"H One of the Renaissance masterpiecesThe harvesting of pineapples. From a set of ten tapestries called The History of the Chinese Emperor commissioned by Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, son of King Louis XIV, to the Beauvais Manufacture. At the end of the 17th century, the Jesuite missionaries were returning from China with tales and knowledge that were to influence the royal courts of Europe. These tapestries, very exotic for the time, were initially made for the Rambouillet castle.