A Louis VX Beauvais Pastoral Tapestry
A Louis XV Beauvais Pastoral Tapestry

CIRCA 1730 - 1735, AFTER JEAN-BAPTISTE OUDRY

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A Louis XV Beauvais Pastoral Tapestry
Circa 1730 - 1735, after Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Depicting 'Le Cheval Fondu' from the series 'Les Amusements Champetres' Woven in wools and silks, depicting courtly dressed youths and maidens by classical ruins within a wooded landscape, the simulated picture frame border with hatched fond, centred to the sides and angles with foliate-wrapped sunflower medallions, signed within the field 'J.B. Oudry 1730', the borders partially turned over
10 ft. 10 in. (330 cm.) x 12 ft. 6 in. (380 cm.)
Sale room notice
Please note the additional Provenance and Literature for this lot:
Provenance:
Probably Marquis de X, Chateau d'A..., sold Georges Petit, Paris, 4 June 1928.
Literature:
Probably Exposicion de Tapices siglos XV a XVIII, Buenos Aires, 1939, p. 58 and pl. 79.

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Lot Essay

The design of this tapestry belongs to a series of eight panels supplied to Beauvais by Jean-Baptiste Oudry (d. 1755) in 1730. Four sets are recorded as having been woven between 1730 and 1733 at Beauvais while the designs were subsequently passed to Aubusson for further weavings. Interestingly the borders of this particular panel are closely related to those woven at the Royal Gobelins Tapestry Manufactory at the time. Oudry indeed became Surintendant at Gobelins in 1733 but no official weaving of this series is documented in their surviving records. However, it is known that various Gobelins workshops resorted to private weavings of sets when the government finances proved instable so there is a possibility that it may form part of a private weaving in one of the Gobelins workshops.

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