AN AUBUSSON PASTORAL TAPESTRY

AFTER JEAN-BAPTISTE HUET, SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY

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AN AUBUSSON PASTORAL TAPESTRY
After Jean-Baptiste Huet, Second Half 18th Century
Centrally woven with a pair of floral swag-draped and ribbon-tied oval reserves with pastoral scenes of courting figures making music and spinning yarn, each suspending trophies and flanking a musical trophy and flower-filled basket suspended from cornucopiae issuing floral garlands, all within a framework of flowers and foliate scrolls, slightly reduced in size, lacking borders
91in. x 152in. (231cm. x 386cm.), approximately

Lot Essay

Alentour tapestries such as this were first designed by Jean Germain Soufflot (d.1780), Franois Boucher (d.1770) and Maurice Jacques (d.1784) for the Royal Gobelins Tapestry Manufacture between 1757 and 1767. The idea was then copied by Aubusson for alentours depicting the fables of La Fontaine and later incorporating scenes designed by Jean-Baptiste Huet (d. 1811), which were woven between 1775 and 1790.

A similar tapestry with variations to the floral swags was sold Christie's London, 1 October 1998, lot 238. Another was sold Schloss Herblingen, Christie's House Sale, 14-18 September 1998, lot 405.

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