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The Gobelins Manufactory (French: Manufacture des Gobelins) is a historic tapestry factory in Paris, France. It is located at 42 avenue des Gobelins, near Les Gobelins métro station in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. It was originally established on the site as a medieval dyeing business by the family Gobelin.

Battle of Zama tapestry after Jules Romain, manufactured for Louis XIV in 1688–1690 (Louvre Museum)

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Gobelins Manufactory

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The Gobelins Manufactory (French: Manufacture des Gobelins) is a historic tapestry factory in Paris, France. It is located at 42 avenue des Gobelins, near...

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Gobelin

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general upholstery manufactory, the Gobelins Manufactory. In various languages 'gobelin' is synonymous for 'tapestry'. Gobelins Manufactory  One or more of...

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Don Quixote tapestry series

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Baptiste Colbert established three manufactories of tapestry production: Gobelins, Beauvais, and Aubusson. Gobelins in Paris would supply tapestries and...

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Gobelins

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Look up gobelins or Gobelins in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gobelins may refer to: Gobelin, the name of family of dyers, established from the 15th...

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Savonnerie manufactory

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grounds, within multiple borders. The Savonnerie manufactory now belongs to the Gobelins Manufactory and still employs 40 weavers. The pre-history of...

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Beauvais Manufactory

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Manufactory (French: Manufacture de Beauvais) is a historic tapestry factory in Beauvais, France. It was the second in importance, after the Gobelins...

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Teddy bears of the Gobelins

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circulated. The Gobelins neighbourhood lies on the border between the 13th and 5th arrondissements, around the Gobelins Manufactory and the Les Gobelins Paris Métro...

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The School of Athens

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reproductions of its art works. A 1689 tapestry reproduction by the Gobelins Manufactory and commissioned by Louis XIV hangs above the presiding officer's...

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Tapestry

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merged this to the new Gobelins Manufactory he founded for the king in 1663, which continues to this day. The Beauvais Manufactory, always a private enterprise...

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13th arrondissement of Paris

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site) Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital Butte-aux-Cailles Gare d'Austerlitz Gobelins Manufactory Art Ludique - Le Musée, first French museum dedicated to the art...

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Cornucopia

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Neoclassical cornucopia on the Choir Carpet of Notre-Dame de Paris, by the Gobelins Manufactory, 1825-1833 Two Beaux Arts mascarons of Avenue Henri-Martin no. 87...

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Paris in the 17th century

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for the Louvre and the Tuileries; 3.5 million for the new royal Gobelins Manufactory and the Savonnerie, 2 million for Place Vendôme, and about the same...

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Industrial design

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large government-operated manufacturing operations epitomized by the Gobelins Manufactory, opened in Paris in 1667 by Louis XIV. Here teams of hundreds of...

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Gustave Geffroy

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Montrouge. A street in Paris's 13th arrondissement, close to the Gobelins Manufactory, bears his name. Novels Le Cœur et l'esprit (1894) L'apprentie (1904)...

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Premier peintre du Roi

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supervising the royal factories of the Savonnerie manufactory for carpets and the Gobelins Manufactory for tapestries and furniture. Le Brun had a bitter...

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The Rising of the Sun

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commissions for Madame de Pompadour as full-scale models for the Gobelins Manufactory. The tapestries produced from the paintings were completed in 1754–1755...

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The Setting of the Sun

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commissions for Madame de Pompadour as full-scale models for the Gobelins Manufactory. The tapestries produced from the paintings were completed in 1754–1755...

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Mobilier National

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French statutory corporation which administers the Gobelins Manufactory and Beauvais Manufactory. It is based in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, and...

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Hubert de Givenchy

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(1843–1919), an artist who was the owner and director of the historic Gobelins Manufactory and Beauvais tapestry factories. Artistic professions ran in the...

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Les Gobelins station

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arrondissements. This station is named after Avenue des Gobelins, which honoured the Gobelin family who manufactured dyes from the mid 15th century on...

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Henry IV of France

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luxuries such as crystal glass, silk, satin, and tapestries (at Gobelins Manufactory and Savonnerie de Chaillot workshops). The king re-established silk...

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Floors Castle

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Goelet. She brought with her from her Long Island home a set of Gobelins Manufactory tapestries, that were incorporated into the ballroom in the 1930s...

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Joseph Vivien

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the Academy and provided with lodging under royal auspices at the Gobelins Manufactory. From Paris he visited Brussels. Vivien was taken up by the francophile...

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