The Emperor Sailing from The Story of the Emperor of China

1. Commissioned Franz Ludwig, Count Palatine von Pfalz-Neuburg (1664-1732), Grand Master of the Teutonic Order (1694-1732); either bequeathed as personal property or by succession (with two other tapestries) to Clemens August Wittelsbach (1700-1761), Grand Master of the Teutonic Order (1732-61), Schloss Ellingen, near Nuremberg (the Teutonic Order’s seat); by 1732; transferred with Schloss Ellingen and its contents to Maximilian I of Bavaria (r. 1805-1825), April 24, 1809, by Napoleon’s decree dissolving the Teutonic Order; ceded with Schloss Ellingen and its contents to Karl Philipp, Prince von Wrede (1767-1838), 1825. Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Dec.10, 1948, lot 77. Akram Ojjeh (1918-1991), by descent to his widow, Nahed Ojjeh; sold Christie’s, Monaco, Dec. 12, 1999, lot 21, to an American private collection; sold Sotheby’s, New York, Oct. 24-25, 2002, lot 780 to S. Franses (dealer), London and New York; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2007.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Simon Franses, Chinoiserie: European Tapestry And Needlework 1680–1780, Oct. 19, 2006–Jan. 26 2007.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Regenstein Hall, The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestry, Nov. 1, 2008–Jan. 4, 2009.

• Edith A. Standen, "The Story of the Emperor of China: A Beauvais Tapestry Series," Metropolitan Museum Journal 11 (1976): 103-117.
• Edith A. Standen, European Post-Medieval Tapestries, vol. 2 (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985), 465 n. 34, 468.
• Jean Coural and Chanti Gastinel-Coural Beauvais, Manufacture nationale de Tapisserie (Centre National des Arts Plastiques, 1992), 32, 33 n. 13.
• Elisabeth Floret, "Rare tapisserie de la manufacture de Beauvais," L'Objet d'Art 275 (Dec. 2002): 29.
• Simon Franses, Chinoiserie: European Tapestry And Needlework 1680–1780, exh. cat. (New York: Frances London, 2006), 40-43, cat. 7 (ill.).
• Art Institute of Chicago, "New Acquisition," News and Events (May/June 2007): 4 (ill.)
• Charissa Bremer-David, “Notable Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago.” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 34, no. 1 (2008): 86-87 (ill.).
• Koenraad Brosens, ed., Christa C. Mayer Thurman, gen. ed., European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat., [exhibition: "The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago"] (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2008) 272-277, cat. 45 (ill.).

E-21: French Boudoir of the Louis XV Period, 1740-60

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Two Women in Yellow Kerchiefs

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E-23: French Dining Room of the Periods of Louis XV and Louis XIV

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Reception

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E-24: French Salon of the Louis XVI Period, c. 1780

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E-18: French Salon of the Louis XIV Period, 1660-1700

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E-22: French Provincial Bedroom of the Louis XV Period, 18th Century

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E-19: French Dining Room of the Louis XIV Period, 1660-1700

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