A BEAUVAIS PASTORAL TAPESTRY PANEL

Lot 225
17.04.2024 14:00UTC -05:00
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$ 7 000
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ID 1177109
Lot 225 | A BEAUVAIS PASTORAL TAPESTRY PANEL
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$ 7 000 – 10 000
A BEAUVAIS PASTORAL TAPESTRY PANEL

AFTER A CARTOON BY FRANÇOIS BOUCHER, CIRCA 1736-1754

Depicting "La Musique" with a man playing lute before a courting couple reading sheets of music, within a landscape setting with scrolling laurel and acanthus clasp borders

10 ft. 1 in. (3.07 m.) x 4 ft. 7 in. (1.40 m.)





Provenance

Monsieur X sale, 1927, lot 5, illustrated, purchased by Stettiner et cie.

The Collection of Ogden L. Mills (1884-1937), New York; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 31 March 1938, lot 538 (possibly acquired by J. Paul Getty).

Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California.

Property of the J. Paul Getty Museum; Christie's, New York, 31 October 1996, lot 322.



Literature

J. Badin, La Manufacture De Tapisseries De Beauvais, Paris, 1909, p. 60.

C. Hunter, Beauvais-Boucher Tapestries in Arts and Decorations, 1919, p. 245.

P. Verlet, Furniture and Objects D'Art in J. Paul Getty The Joys of Collecting, New York, 1975, p. 165 (illustrated).

E. Standen, "Fetes Italiennes: Beauvais Tapestries after Boucher in the Metropolitan Museum of Art", Metropolitan Museum Journal, New York, vol. 12, 1977, pp. 107-130, footnote 20.

E. Standen, European Post Medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. II, 1985, pp. 511-515.
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