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AFTER A CARTOON BY FRANÇOIS BOUCHER, CIRCA 1736-1754
Details
A BEAUVAIS PASTORAL TAPESTRY PANEL
AFTER A CARTOON BY FRANÇOIS BOUCHER, CIRCA 1736-1754
Depicting "La Musique" with a man playing lute before a courting couple reading sheets of music, within a landscape setting with scrolling laurel and acanthus clasp borders
10 ft. 1 in. (3.07 m.) x 4 ft. 7 in. (1.40 m.)
AFTER A CARTOON BY FRANÇOIS BOUCHER, CIRCA 1736-1754
Depicting "La Musique" with a man playing lute before a courting couple reading sheets of music, within a landscape setting with scrolling laurel and acanthus clasp borders
10 ft. 1 in. (3.07 m.) x 4 ft. 7 in. (1.40 m.)
Provenance
Monsieur X sale, 1927, lot 5, illustrated, purchased by Stettiner et cie.
The Collection of Ogden L. Mills (1884-1937), New York; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 31 March 1938, lot 538 (possibly acquired by J. Paul Getty).
Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California.
Property of the J. Paul Getty Museum; Christie's, New York, 31 October 1996, lot 322.
The Collection of Ogden L. Mills (1884-1937), New York; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 31 March 1938, lot 538 (possibly acquired by J. Paul Getty).
Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California.
Property of the J. Paul Getty Museum; Christie's, New York, 31 October 1996, lot 322.
Literature
J. Badin, La Manufacture De Tapisseries De Beauvais, Paris, 1909, p. 60.
C. Hunter, Beauvais-Boucher Tapestries in Arts and Decorations, 1919, p. 245.
P. Verlet, Furniture and Objects D'Art in J. Paul Getty The Joys of Collecting, New York, 1975, p. 165 (illustrated).
E. Standen, "Fetes Italiennes: Beauvais Tapestries after Boucher in the Metropolitan Museum of Art", Metropolitan Museum Journal, New York, vol. 12, 1977, pp. 107-130, footnote 20.
E. Standen, European Post Medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. II, 1985, pp. 511-515.
C. Hunter, Beauvais-Boucher Tapestries in Arts and Decorations, 1919, p. 245.
P. Verlet, Furniture and Objects D'Art in J. Paul Getty The Joys of Collecting, New York, 1975, p. 165 (illustrated).
E. Standen, "Fetes Italiennes: Beauvais Tapestries after Boucher in the Metropolitan Museum of Art", Metropolitan Museum Journal, New York, vol. 12, 1977, pp. 107-130, footnote 20.
E. Standen, European Post Medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. II, 1985, pp. 511-515.
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