Vase with Scenes of historic courtly hunts in France

Localisation : The Gallery of Battles
Année de création :1846
Artiste :Anonymous

Description

This large vase is one of a pair. One was given by Louis-Philippe as a gift to the Bey of Tunis, and the other to the Duke of Aumale in 1847.

The vase in Chantilly shows four historic hunting scenes: Catherine de Medici hunting with a crossbow in front of the Château de Chambord; Louis XIII having a hunting lodge built in the Versailles woods in 1622; Louis XIV and the King of England in exile hunting together in Saint-Germain-en-Laye in 1689; and a night hunt in Chantilly, organised for the future Czar Paul I of Russia when he came to Chantilly in 1781. This imposing vase bears witness to the historicist vogue in decorative art under the July Monarchy.