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
Details
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 Gallant Peddler from La
Danse, from the series Fêtes Italiennes, with a figure in a blue coat above a small commode flanked by two women and a man, before a further man leaning against a box, before an extensive ruin landscape,
within later blue guard border, originally probably part of a larger
tapestry incorporating the previous and following tapestries, minor
areas of reweaving
11 ft. 1 in. (338 cm.) high; 6 ft. 1 in. (186 cm.) wide
CIRCA 1744 - 1753, BEAUVAIS, AFTER FRANCOIS BOUCHER, BY NICOLAS BESNIER AND JEAN-BAPTISTE OUDRY
Woven in silk and wool, depicting The Gallant Peddler from La
Danse, from the series Fêtes Italiennes, with a figure in a blue coat above a small commode flanked by two women and a man, before a further man leaning against a box, before an extensive ruin landscape,
within later blue guard border, originally probably part of a larger
tapestry incorporating the previous and following tapestries, minor
areas of reweaving
11 ft. 1 in. (338 cm.) high; 6 ft. 1 in. (186 cm.) wide
Provenance
Gaston Menier, sold Paris, Galerie Jean Charpentier, 24 November 1936, lot 115.
Anonymous sale, Christie's Geneva, 8 May 1973, lot 116.
Anonymous sale, Christie's Geneva, 8 May 1973, lot 116.
Literature
A. Ananoff, M.B. Wildenstein, François Boucher, Geneva, 1976, vol. I, pp. 259 and 261.
E. Standen, 'Fêtes Italiennes: Beauvais Tapestries after Boucher in The Metropolitan Museum of Art', Metropolitan Museum Journal, 1977, pp. 113, 119 and 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, 'Fêtes Italiennes: Beauvais Tapestries after Boucher in The Metropolitan Museum of Art', Metropolitan Museum Journal, 1977, pp. 113, 119 and 129.
E. Standen, European Post-Medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985, vol. II, p. 531.
Special notice
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