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 Dance from La Danse, from the series Fêtes Italiennes, depicting several figures dancing in the foreground, with an open landscape beyond, within a later blue guard border, originally probably part of a larger tapestry incorporating the previous two lots, minor areas of reweaving, some patching to the sky
10 ft. 11 in. (332 cm.) high; 46½ in. (118 cm.) wide
CIRCA 1744 - 1753, BEAUVAIS, AFTER FRANCOIS BOUCHER, BY NICOLAS BESNIER AND JEAN-BAPTISTE OUDRY
Woven in silk and wool, depicting The Dance from La Danse, from the series Fêtes Italiennes, depicting several figures dancing in the foreground, with an open landscape beyond, within a later blue guard border, originally probably part of a larger tapestry incorporating the previous two lots, minor areas of reweaving, some patching to the sky
10 ft. 11 in. (332 cm.) high; 46½ in. (118 cm.) wide
Provenance
Gaston Menier, sold Paris, Galerie Jean Charpentier, 24 November 1936, lot 117.
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.
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.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.