Aubusson Tapestry entitled LAETITIA by Hervé Lelong.
Wears the original bolduc sewn behind the tapestry.
Woven by the Jean Laurent workshop in Aubusson and numbered 3/6 in 1976.
Hervé Lelong was born in Chartres in 1937.
It was at the great exhibition of modern tapestries organised in Paris just after the war that Hervé Lelong discovered tapestry and its magic when he was still a child. From that day on, he never stopped going to the Musée de Cluny, in the Louvre, to contemplate the hangings of the Middle Ages or the Renaissance, and to see the exhibitions of contemporary tapestries at the gallery La Demeure.
From the age of fifteen, he is fortunate enough to be able to attend a decorative art workshop three afternoons a week. There he made his first cartoons thanks to the advice of the Crescent lacquer artist.
With his baccalaureate in his pocket, he studied at the Met de Penninghen workshop, then at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Métiers d'Art where Robert Wogensky directed a course in tapestry cartoons for a few weeks. While still a student, in 1959, he received his first order for cardboard which was woven in Felletin at the Manufacture Pinton frères.
From then on, thanks to public commissions such as the tapestry "Jehanne", in 1962, for the school ship "Jeanne d'Arc", or mainly private commissions for banks, insurance companies or private individuals, he had his cardboard boxes woven in various workshops in Aubusson.
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