MID-18TH CENTURY, BEAUVAIS, AFTER FRANCOIS BOUCHER

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A FRENCH PASTORAL TAPESTRY
MID-18TH CENTURY, BEAUVAIS, AFTER FRANCOIS BOUCHER
Woven in silk and wool, depicting The Luncheon from Les Nobles Pastorales, with various figures to the foreground holding fruits, flowers and wine, with a boy holding a god and suspending a basket of grapes, to the left with ruins and within an open wooded landscape, within a simulated giltwood frame border and a blue outer guard border, later to top and bottom, reduced in size with consequential cuts to the borders, limited areas of re-weaving, heightened with surface colour in several areas
9 ft. 5 in. (287 cm.) high; 8 ft. 5 in. (256 cm.) wide

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

The preparatory painting for the central section with the standing boy and girl with basket of fruit is in the Indianapolis Museum of Art (A. Ananoff, M.B. Wildenstein, François Boucher, Geneva, 1976, vol. II, p. 23, fig. 940).

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