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DESCRIPTION:In February 2018 Wolf Burchard delivered a Françoise and George
 s Selz Lecture entitled “Stages of Power\,” which explored the history of 
 the Savonnerie carpet manufactory. This fall he will return to BGC for an 
 update on his ongoing research on the subject. In 2023 Burchard joined for
 ces with Emmanuelle Federspiel and Antonin Macé de Lepinay of the Mobilier
  national in Paris. Together\, they curated Le Trésor retrouvé du Roi-Sole
 il (Grand Palais\, Paris\, 2026)\, an exhibition that showcased thirty-two
  of the ninety-two Savonnerie carpets made in the late 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 comprehensive catalogue
  of all 115 Savonnerie carpets woven for the Grande Galerie and Galerie d’
 Apollon. Together with Met curator Elizabeth Cleland\, Burchard also curat
 ed A King’s Carpet: Louis XIV and the Savonnerie (Metropolitan Museum of A
 rt\, 2028)\, the first exhibition devoted to the French royal carpet manuf
 acturer in the United States. Building on his last lecture on the Savonner
 ie at BGC\, Burchard will return to notions of royal carpets as stages of 
 power\, their use during the Ancien régime and the French Revolution\, as 
 well as the heydays of the Rothschilds and America’s Gilded Age robber bar
 ons.Bard Graduate Center is grateful for the generous support of the Selz 
 Foundation.Wolf Burchard is curator in the Department of European Sculptur
 e and Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Before joining th
 e Met in 2019\, he served as furniture research curator at the National Tr
 ust 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 t
 he author of The Sovereign Artist: Charles Le Brun and the Image of Louis 
 XIV (2016) and Picture Democracy (2026)\, and curated Inspiring Walt Disne
 y: The Animation of French Decorative Arts (2021)\, which was exhibited at
  the Met\, the Wallace Collection\, and the Huntington. He is currently co
 authoring a new monograph on Louis XIV’s Savonnerie carpets for the Grande
  Galerie of the Louvre.Object LabsAt Bard Graduate Center\, we use an obje
 ct-centered approach to advance the study of the decorative arts\, design 
 history\, and material culture. Join our student educators before select F
 all 2026 public events to learn about some of the objects in BGC’s Study C
 ollection. Each week we will showcase three objects carefully selected fro
 m the collection\, which includes more than five thousand objects in a var
 iety of media. Drop in anytime between 5 and 6 pm\; the experience takes r
 oughly ten minutes.October 7\, 14\, and 21November 4\, 11\, and 1838 West 
 86th Street\, New York5–6 pmFounded in 2011\, the BGC Study Collection sup
 ports student research by providing opportunities for hands-on close exami
 nation of objects. Learn more about the BGC Study Collection here.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Louis XIV’s Savonnerie Carpets: “Stages of Po
 wer” Revisited
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