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SUMMARY:Louis XIV’s Savonnerie Carpets: “Stages of Power” Revisited
LOCATION:Bard Graduate Center
DESCRIPTION:Louis XIV’s Savonnerie Carpets: “Stages of Power” Revisit
 edA Françoise and Georges Selz Lecture on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Cent
 ury French Decorative Arts and Culture by Wolf Burchard (The Metropolitan 
 Museum of Art)Wednesday\, October 7\, 202638 West 86th Street\, Lecture Ha
 llgallery@bgc.bard.edu$15 General | $12 Seniors | Free for people associat
 ed with a college or university\, people with museum ID\, people with disa
 bilities and caregivers\, and BGC membersNo late seating\; admittance is n
 ot guaranteed after 6 pm.In February 2018 Wolf Burchard delivered a Franç
 oise and Georges Selz Lecture entitled “Stages of Power\,” which explo
 red the history of the Savonnerie carpet manufactory. This fall he will re
 turn to BGC for an update on his ongoing research on the subject. In 2023 
 Burchard joined forces with Emmanuelle Federspiel and Antonin Macé de Lep
 inay of the Mobilier national in Paris. Together\, they curated Le Trésor
  retrouvé du Roi-Soleil (Grand Palais\, Paris\, 2026)\, an exhibition tha
 t showcased thirty-two of the ninety-two Savonnerie carpets made in the la
 te seventeenth century to cover the full span of the Grande Galerie of the
  Palais du Louvre. The three curators are now in the throes of writing a c
 omprehensive catalogue of all 115 Savonnerie carpets woven for the Grande 
 Galerie and Galerie d’Apollon. Together with Met curator Elizabeth Clela
 nd\, Burchard also curated A King’s Carpet: Louis XIV and the Savonnerie
  (Metropolitan Museum of Art\, 2028)\, the first exhibition devoted to the
  French royal carpet manufacturer in the United States. Building on his la
 st lecture on the Savonnerie at BGC\, Burchard will return to notions of r
 oyal carpets as stages of power\, their use during the Ancien régime and 
 the French Revolution\, as well as the heydays of the Rothschilds and Amer
 ica’s Gilded Age robber barons.Wolf Burchard is curator in the Departmen
 t of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of 
 Art. Before joining the Met in 2019\, he served as furniture research cura
 tor at the National Trust and curatorial assistant at the Royal Collection
 . He earned his MA and PhD in art history from the Courtauld Institute of 
 Art in London. He is the author of The Sovereign Artist: Charles Le Brun a
 nd the Image of Louis XIV (2016) and Picture Democracy (2026)\, and curate
 d Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts (2021)\, 
 which was exhibited at the Met\, the Wallace Collection\, and the Huntingt
 on. He is currently coauthoring a new monograph on Louis XIV’s Savonneri
 e carpets for the Grande Galerie of the Louvre.Bard Graduate Center is gra
 teful for the generous support of the Selz Foundation.Image: Le Trésor re
 trouvé du Roi-Soleil\, Grand Palais\, Paris\, February 1–8\, 2026.Objec
 t LabsAt Bard Graduate Center\, we use an object-centered approach to adva
 nce the study of the decorative arts\, design history\, and material cultu
 re. Join our student educators before select Fall 2026 public events to le
 arn about some of the objects in BGC’s Study Collection. Each week we wi
 ll showcase three objects carefully selected from the collection\, which i
 ncludes more than five thousand objects in a variety of media. Drop in any
 time between 5 and 6 pm\; the experience takes roughly ten minutes.October
  7\, 14\, and 21\; November 4\, 11\, and 1838 West 86th Street\, New York5
 –6 pmFounded in 2011\, the BGC Study Collection supports student researc
 h by providing opportunities for hands-on close examination of objects. Le
 arn more about the BGC Study Collection here.\n\nBoletos: https://www.simp
 letix.com/e/louis-xiv-s-savonnerie-carpets-stages-of-p-tickets-289247
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