AN AUBUSSON PASTORAL TAPESTRY FRAGMENT
FIRST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Centrally woven with a musician playing a violin before a dancing couple, within later foliate borders (areas of reweaving, reduced) -7ft. 9in. x 4ft. 9in. (2m. 36cm. x 1m. 45cm.)
Lot Essay
A complete scene of 'La Danse' is illustrated in D. Chevalier, Les Tapisseries d'Aubusson et de Felletin, Paris, 1988, pg. 148.