Details
*A BEAUVAIS MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY
circa 1749, after françois boucher
Depicting the 'La Toilette de Psyché,' with Psyche and her attendants in Cupids's garden, on the left an attendant carries a basket of flowers, while two attendants tie a ribbon through the hair of the scantily clad Psyche as she admires her reflection in a looking glass, with a partial view of a bronze fountain on the far right side, within associated acanthus clasp borders, reduced, repair through center, areas of reweaving throughout
10ft. 2in. x 15ft. 9in. (3m. 10cm. x 4m. 80cm.)
Provenance
Duc de Gramont, Paris, sold Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 22 May 1925, lot 73
With Duveen Brothers, London, 1933
Anna Thompson Dodge, Rose Terrace, Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, sold Christie's London, 24 June 1971, lot 137
J. Paul Getty who purchased it at the sale
Literature
J. Baden, La Manufacture de tapisseries de Beauvais, Paris 1909, p. 60
Duveen and Co., A Catalogue of Works of Art of the Eighteenth Century in the Collection of Anna Thompson Dodge, Detroit, 1933, intro. pp. iii-iv, illus.
C. Bremer-David, Decorative Arts, An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1993, p. 173, no. 296
Exhibited
London, 25 Park Lane, Three French Reigns, February - April 1933, no. 528, pl. 88
San Marino, California, The Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, January-July 1989
Further details
*This lot may be exempt from sales tax, as set forth in the Sales Tax Notice at the front of the catalogue.
