Tapestry "The Operator or the Curiosity" of the hanging of t - Lot 204

Lot n° 204
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Tapestry "The Operator or the Curiosity" of the hanging of t - Lot 204
Tapestry "The Operator or the Curiosity" of the hanging of the Italian Festivals also called Italian village festivals, after François Boucher (1703-1770), manufacture of Beauvais under the direction of Nicolas Besnier (1734-1753), carries the inscription at the bottom in weaving Boucher 1737. H: 3,52 m - L: 5,21 m Wool and silk, snags and brittlenesses, insolate right part of the sky, at the top staples, small beige braid formerly nailed, lining by strips. The hanging of the Italian Festivals includes other subjects of which: The Bohemian, The Hunters, The Fisherwoman, The Girls with Grapes, The Dance, The Snack, The Music, The Gardener, The Shepherdess, The Cabaret Maker, The Parrot, The Egg Merchant. A tapestry of the same subject is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Gift of Ann Payne Robertson 64.145.1. This one has a paper with the inscription Pourtalès. Bibliography: - J. Badin, La manufacture de tapisseries de Beauvais, 1909, p. 31-41. - Edith Standen & Regina Shoolman Slatkin, Metropolitan Journal, vol. 12/1977, p.107. - Edith Standen, European Post Medieval tapestries and related hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1985, vol.II, p. 510, 78 a.
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