Rambouillet
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Pinton workshop.
With signed label, n°1/6.
Circa 1970.
Perrot began his career as a cartoonist after the war, producing nearly 500 cartoons, with numerous commissions from the State, most of them woven by Aubusson. His eminently decorative and iridescent style is highly characteristic: a profusion of butterflies or birds, most often set against a vegetal ground, in the spirit of mille-fleurs tapestries (from which Dom Robert also draws inspiration).
René Perrot is, for the most part, an animal artist who usually stylizes. Here, his decorative vein is offset by the extremely realistic treatment of the stag, unusual in post-war tapestry. The cartoon’s title refers to the great French hunts that he illustrated extensively, for example in “Sologne”, deposited at the Musée de la Chasse de Gien by the Mobilier National.
Bibliography :
Tapisserie, dessins, peintures, gravures de René Perrot, Dessein et Tolra, 1982
Exh. Cat. René Perrot, mon pauvre cœur est un hibou, Aubusson, Cité Internationale de la Tapisserie, 2023
