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Rennes seeks sponsors to restore a tapestry carton
18/2/24 - Fundraising - Rennes, Musée des Beaux-Arts - As Fate would have it, some of the tapestries from the Parlement de Bretagne that were not destroyed in the fire of 1994 disappeared in 1997 in a fire in the restoration workshop where they had been carefully loaned. Only half of them survived. The cartoons, in other words the models painted to the size of the weaving to be done, have also been preserved. It is these cartoons that give us an idea of the monumental decor, consisting in all of around twenty tapestries, that adorned two large rooms in the Parliament building. The First Civil Chamber was decorated with allegories designed by Joseph Blanc. The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes recently acquired sketches by Blanc for four allegories: History, Philosophy, Eloquence and…
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