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AN AUBUSSON PASTORAL TAPESTRY

18TH CENTURY, AFTER A DESIGN BY JEAN-BAPTISTE HUËT THE ELDER

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AN AUBUSSON PASTORAL TAPESTRY
18th Century, after a design by Jean-Baptiste Huët the elder
Woven in wools and silks, depicting two maidens and a young man playing blind-mans bluff, in a wooded park landscape with a building beyond, the borders with columns and with acanthus sprays framing a medallion to the corners, within a yellow outer slip, reduced in size, re-weaving and patching
97in. x 65½in. (246cm. x 166cm.)

Lot Essay

A tapestry of identical subject, but more expansive, was exhibited at V. and C. Sternberg in 1966 and is illustrated in V. and C. Sternberg, Four Centuries of Tapestry, Exhibition Catalogue, London, 2 - 23 November 1966, cat. 74. A further version was sold anonymously, Ader, Picard, Tajan, Paris, 10 December 1989, lot 189, and another at Jean-Louis Picard, Paris, 7 February 1996, lot 222.

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