Lot Essay
This subject is first recorded as being on the looms in 1744 and does not appear to have been woven after 1753.
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CIRCA 1744 - 1753, BEAUVAIS, AFTER FRANCOIS BOUCHER, BY NICOLAS BESNIER AND JEAN-BAPTISTE OUDRY
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A FRENCH PASTORAL TAPESTRY FRAGMENT
CIRCA 1744 - 1753, BEAUVAIS, AFTER FRANCOIS BOUCHER, BY NICOLAS BESNIER AND JEAN-BAPTISTE OUDRY
Woven in silk and wool, depicting The Flute Player from La Danse, from the series Fêtes Italiennes, with a flute player leaning against a vase and with a group of gallant figures to the right and a woman with two children to the left, within a wooded landscape, within a later blue guard border, probably cut from a larger panel including the following two lots, minor areas of reweaving
11 ft. 3 in. (343 cm.) high; 6 ft. (184 cm.) wide
CIRCA 1744 - 1753, BEAUVAIS, AFTER FRANCOIS BOUCHER, BY NICOLAS BESNIER AND JEAN-BAPTISTE OUDRY
Woven in silk and wool, depicting The Flute Player from La Danse, from the series Fêtes Italiennes, with a flute player leaning against a vase and with a group of gallant figures to the right and a woman with two children to the left, within a wooded landscape, within a later blue guard border, probably cut from a larger panel including the following two lots, minor areas of reweaving
11 ft. 3 in. (343 cm.) high; 6 ft. (184 cm.) wide
Provenance
Gaston Menier, sold Paris, Galerie Jean Charpentier, 24 November 1936, lot 116.
Anonymous sale, Christie's Geneva, 8 May 1973, lot 116.
Anonymous sale, Christie's Geneva, 8 May 1973, lot 116.
Literature
E. Standen, 'Fêtes Italiennes: Beauvais Tapestries after Boucher in The Metropolitan Museum of Art', Metropolitan Museum Journal, 1977, p. 129.
E. Standen, European Post-Medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985, vol. II, p. 531.
E. Standen, European Post-Medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985, vol. II, p. 531.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.