Mucha Autumn European Wall Tapestry Vertical a set of 12 tapestries

a set of 12 tapestries woven at the Gobelins Factory in Paris towards the end of the 17th century for King Louis XIV of France

Each piece in the series represents one of the senses except for the final A Mon Seul Desir

Woven in about 1511 and now housed in the Cluny Museum

The flowers are inspired by the work of Basilius Besler who was a well known botanist

known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes

Mucha Autumn European Wall Tapestry Vertical a set of 12 tapestriesMucha Autumn is a Belgian made jacquard woven wall tapestry. In this work by Czechoslovakian artist Alphonse Mucha (1860 1939). Autumn is personified in a piece from his The Seasons series, 1900. An ethereal woman poses with a basket of the harvest. Her gown is heavily beaded and she wears a beaded headband on her hair. A red draped chair is behind her and the background forms a stylized outdoor setting to create a dreamlike setting to the scene.