Photo Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Ar The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced its upcoming exhibition, A King’s Carpet: Louis XIV and the Savonnerie, a landmark presentation revealing the remarkable story behind the monumental carpets commissioned for the Louvre’s Grande Galerie, on view September 8, 2026–March 5, 2028 at The Met Fifth Avenue. In 1668, King Louis XIV and his chief minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, launched one of the most audacious decorative arts c