Masters of Science Tapestry

Tapestry hanging in the Charles Woodward Memorial room titled "Masters Of Science Tapestry"

Masters Of Science Tapestry

Tapestry History

This tapestry, worked in 1948 in a special workshop opened at Colombes particularly for the weaving of several models representing different scenes such as: Masters of Science–Masters of the Spirit– Springtime–Water and Fire–The Harvest–The Dance–The Chase.

The workshop at Colombes was directed by M Guillaume Janneau, administrator of the Gobelin tapestry works. Numerous designs were drawn by O.-D.-V GuillonnetM J. Cochery, workshop head at Gobelins, was the weaver.

A similar tapestry (the original) was woven on the Gobelin looms and is now hanging in the thesis room at the Sorbonne

Tapestry Masters of Science

Tapestry
Gobelin tapestry stitch 3.35m x 4.75m designed by E.O.D.V. Guillonnet and woven by J. Cochery

Theme
Masters of Science

Date of Acquisition
1967

Source of Funds
Donated by the late Mr. P.A. Woodward

Provenance:
Purchased from:
Mmme. O. Menard
La Boutique de Bettina
65 Ave Mozart
Paris 16

Text
“Tormented by the unknown, they keep the sacred fires of research burning throughout the ages”

“En proie aux tourments de l’Inconnu ils entretiennent au long des ages le feu de la Recherche”

Signatures
E.O.D.V. Guillonnet, (creator of the design sketch)
J. Cochery (workshop head at the Gobelin tapestry works

Masters of Science Map
  1. Isaac Newton (1643-1727)
  2. Urbain Le Verrier (1811-1877)
  3. Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827)
  4. Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800-1884)
  5. Henri Becquerel (1852-1908)
  6. Pierre Paul Emile Roux (1853-1933)
  7. Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778-1850)
  8. Pierre Curie (1859-1906)
  9. Charles Richet (1850-1935)
  10. Auguste Comte (1798-1857)
  11. Claude Bernard (1813-1878)
  12. Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)
  13. Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786-1889)
  14. Edward Jenner (1749-1823)
  15. James Phipps (1788-1853)
  16. Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
  17. Jules Henri Poincare (1854-1912)
  18. Léon Foucault (1819-1868)
  19. Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
  20. Sir William Herschel (1738-1822)
  21. Joseph Louis LaGrange (1736-1813)
  22. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829)
  23. Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
  24. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
  25. Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (1743-1794)
  26. Denis Papin (1647-1712)
  27. Georges Cuvier (1769-1832)
  28. Jacques-Arsène d’Arsonval (1851-1940)
  29. Jean le Rond d’Alembert (1717-1783)
  30. Alexis Clairaut (1713-1765)
  31. Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857-1894)
  32. Gustave Kirchhoff (1824-1887)
  33. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
  34. Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796-1832)
  35. Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)
  36. François Arago (1786-1853)
  37. Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749-1822)
  38. Charles Hermite (1822-1901)
  39. Marcellin Pierre Eugène Berthelot (1827-1907)
  40. William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824-1907)
  41. Gaspard Monge (1746-1818)
  42. Andre-Marie Ampere (1775-1836)
  43. Nicéphore Niepce (1765-1833)
  44. Alessandro Volta (1745-1827)
  45. Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788-1827)
  46. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)