Several Purchases of Fontainebleau (and the Château De Pau) – La Tribune De l'Art

Three very recent acquisitions (the last date of today), by the Château de Pau and that of Fontainebleau, allow to evoke an important order of tapestries in 1822 for the "appartement de SAR Monsieur à Fontainebleau" Monsieur was none other than the Count d'Artois, brother of Louis XVIII and future Charles X. These tapestries were planned to number seven, of vertical format, five wider, showing episodes of the life of Saint Louis and Henri IV, an…