ID 1027692
Lot 349 | A LOUIS XV BEAUVAIS PASTORAL TAPESTRY
Estimate value
$ 20 000 – 30 000
WOVEN UNDER THE DIRECTION OF JEAN-BAPTISTE OUDRY AND NICOLAS BESNIER, AFTER A DESIGN BY FRANCOIS BOUCHER, CIRCA 1736-52
Woven in wools and silks, depicting La Collation from the series Fêtes Italiennes, showing a group of men and women in noble dress at leisure in a pastoral setting before a small cottage and a table where a servant unpacks a box of table linens, glasses and fruits and another serves the party a tray of wine, signed 'BESNIER ET OUDRY A BEAUVAIS'; lacking original border
128 in. (325 cm.) high, 122 in. (310 cm.) wide
Provenance
Baron James de Rothschild (1792-1868), Le Salon des Tapisseries, in the Château de Ferrières, Seine-et-Marne .
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
C. de Nicolay-Mazery, Visites privées, hôtels particuliers de Paris, Paris, 1999, p. 10.
| Medium: | Silk, Textile, Wool |
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| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Tapestries |
| Medium: | Silk, Textile, Wool |
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| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Tapestries |
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