La Recolte des Ananas I French Wall Tapestry Renaissance A lovely antique tapestry replica

A lovely antique tapestry replica from the famous series The Lady and the Unicorn

Tapestries with medallions were generally used to decorate royal or bourgeois mansions

This French wall tapestry is of the highest quality we offer

and is surrounded by an arabesque border

Here we have a woven tapestry rendition of a painting by Bierdstadt of the California Sierra Nevada mountains that was originally painted in 1868

La Recolte des Ananas I French Wall Tapestry Renaissance A lovely antique tapestry replicaLa Recolte des Ananas, or The Pineapple Harvest, originates from a set of ten tapestries called The History of the Chinese Emperor that were initially made for the Rambouillet castle. At the end of the 17th century, Jesuit missionaries were returning from China with tales and knowledge that were to influence the royal courts of Europe. The tapestries, very exotic for the time, were commissioned by Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, son of the King Louis XIV,