AFTER DESIGNS BY JEAN-BAPTISTE OUDRY

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A LOUIS XV BEAUVAIS PASTORAL TAPESTRY
After designs by Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Woven in wools and silks, depicting Le Marchand de Plaisirs and L'Escarpolette from the series Les Amusements Champêtres, to the left with a group of shepherdesses and a vendor with children, flanked by cows and a sheep, before an arch and farm buildings and a château in the distance, to the right with a girl in a swing helped by two youths, all in a wooded landscape, within a foliate border with geometric partitions and a brown and blue outer slip, reweaving and patching
103 in. x 166½ in. (262 cm. x 423 cm.)

Lot Essay

The series Les Amusements Champêtres was designed by Jean-Baptiste Oudry (d. 1755) and supplied to Noël-Antoine de Mérou, then directeur of the Royal Beauvais Tapestry Manufactory, before 1731. This very successful series was later adapted and extended for Aubusson by Jean-Baptiste Huët the elder (d. 1811).

A tapestry of identical design, although with differing borders and smaller main field, was sold anonymously at Christie's New York, 19 May 1988, lot 244.

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