Lot Essay
A tapestry of identical design but lacking its borders is illustrated in D. Boccara, Les Belles Heures de la Tapisserie, Milan, 1971, p. 217.
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AFTER JEAN-BAPTISTE HUET
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A LOUIS XV AUBUSSON FETE CHAMPETRE TAPESTRY
After Jean-Baptiste Huet
Woven in wools and silks, depicting Le Cheval Fondu, with four youths in the centre foreground, to the left a single figure and to the right a seated maiden with a child, within a wooded landscape and an altar in the forest with a pole with a grotesque head, the left with a building and the background with a bridge and buildings beyond, within a later florally-wrapped column border and later blue outer slip, areas of reweaving and patching
7 ft. x 12 ft. (213 cm. x 366 cm.)
After Jean-Baptiste Huet
Woven in wools and silks, depicting Le Cheval Fondu, with four youths in the centre foreground, to the left a single figure and to the right a seated maiden with a child, within a wooded landscape and an altar in the forest with a pole with a grotesque head, the left with a building and the background with a bridge and buildings beyond, within a later florally-wrapped column border and later blue outer slip, areas of reweaving and patching
7 ft. x 12 ft. (213 cm. x 366 cm.)