Lot Essay
A complete weaving of 'La Halte des Chasseurs' is in the Musée du Petit Palais and is illustrated in D. Chevalier, Les Tapisseries D'Aubusson et de Felletin, Paris, 1988, pg. 146.
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AN AUBUSSON PASTORAL TAPESTRY
MID-18TH CENTURY
Centrally woven with a hunter and a woman with a sleeping child, a hound drinks from a stream, within a wooded landscape, the borders woven with floral garlands (losses to borders, areas of reweaving and separation)-8ft. 2½in. x 6ft. 1in. (2m. 46cm. x 1m. 83cm.)
MID-18TH CENTURY
Centrally woven with a hunter and a woman with a sleeping child, a hound drinks from a stream, within a wooded landscape, the borders woven with floral garlands (losses to borders, areas of reweaving and separation)-8ft. 2½in. x 6ft. 1in. (2m. 46cm. x 1m. 83cm.)