A BEAUVAIS PASTORAL TAPESTRY

PROPERTY BELONGING TO THE HEIRS FROM THE ESTATE OF EVA PETSCHEK NEWMAN

Details

A BEAUVAIS PASTORAL TAPESTRY
THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, AFTER DESIGNS BY FLORENTIN DAMOISELET (B. 1644)

From the series "Jeux d'enfants" and depicting "La Toupie," centrally woven with children playing in a garden, within entrelac borders-8ft. 4in. x 7ft. 7in. (2m. 50cm. x 2m. 27cm.)

Provenance

J. Seligmann, Paris

Further details

PROPERTY BELONGING TO THE HEIRS FROM THE ESTATE OF EVA PETSCHEK NEWMAN

Lot Essay

A virtually identical version of this tapestry but woven in reverse from the present lot is in the Mobilier national, Paris and is illustrated in J. Coural, Beauvais, Manufacture nationale de Tapisserie, Mobilier national, 1992, pg. 12.