CIRCA 1746 - 1753, BEAUVAIS, AFTER FRANCOIS BOUCHER, BY NICOLAS BESNIER AND JEAN-BAPTISTE OUDRY

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A FRENCH PASTORAL TAPESTRY
CIRCA 1746 - 1753, BEAUVAIS, AFTER FRANCOIS BOUCHER, BY NICOLAS BESNIER AND JEAN-BAPTISTE OUDRY
En suite with the preceding two lots and the following lot, woven in silk and wool, depicting La Collation from Fêtes Italiennes, with a central group of figures with a standing lady holding a parasol and a waiter bringing wine, to the right with a dog and to the left with a further man putting flowers in a basket by a house with baldacchin, within a blue outer guard border, signed 'F. Boucher' and inversely to the left foreground, later to top and bottom, limited areas of reweaving
9 ft. 6 in. (290 cm.) high; 8 ft. (244 cm.) wide

Provenance

Anonymous sale, sold Paris, Hôtel George V, 23 June 1988, lot 129.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

This subject is first recorded as being on the looms in 1745, although as this lot, the previous two and the following lot form a set, it could not have been woven before 1746. However, there is no record of La Danse having been woven after 1753, which narrows the date of the weaving of these four tapestries to 1746 - 1753.

A design of the man extended to the left before the main group is in the Cabinet des Dessins, musée du Louvre, no. 599 M.I.

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