A LOUIS AUBUSSON PASTORAL TAPESTRY

AFTER JEAN-BAPTISTE HUET, CIRCA 1780

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A LOUIS AUBUSSON PASTORAL TAPESTRY
After Jean-Baptiste Huet, Circa 1780
Depiciting a pair of ribbon-tied oval medallions enclosing scenes of shepherds and shepherdesses centering a musical trophy within garlands on a cream ground, reweaving along top and bottom edges, later brown guard borders
85¾ x 160¼in. (218 x 407cm.)

拍品專文

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 of narrower dimensions was sold anonymously, Christie's King Street, 1 October 1998, lot 238, (£16,100).