The sale took place at Christie's at the end of September.
With the hammer.
For the modest sum of 16,000 pounds.
“It’s a very nice acquisition.
We are still very surprised to have obtained it at such a price.
Especially when we know that its last owner was none other than…
Charlie Watts, the former drummer of the Rolling Stones who died in 2021 ,
”
enthuses Antoine Verney, chief curator of the Bayeux Museums (Calvados).
His joy is not feigned.
And for good reason: more than a new piece to add to the inventory of the Bayeux Tapestry Museum, the Norman city has in fact offered itself a part of its history.
This life-size Victorian replica of the real Bayeux Tapestry, 70 meters long and 50 cm high, is actually a photographic print dating from 1874.
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“It was a commission from the Museum of Decorative Art in London carried out in 1870. However, for the time, producing such a photographic replica on glass plates at a scale of 1 was daring…
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