Blindman's bluff. Huet, Jean-Baptiste (French, 1745-1811) (designed after) [painter] c. 1780-1810 Tapestry Dimensions: H 6'5" x W 7'3" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Aubusson Ownership History: French & Co. received from Parrish Museum 1/21/1965; returned 10/14/1965. In landscape with trees & flowering plants, youths & maidens playing at blindman's bluff; young man standing blind-folded & flanked by 2 ladies teasing him; others seated, watching the scene; river & building in distance (BRD) alternating acanthus leaf & guilloche spiral A similar tapestry w
Blindman's bluff. Huet, Jean-Baptiste (French, 1745-1811) (designed after) [painter] c. 1780-1810 Tapestry Dimensions: H 6'5" x W 7'3" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Aubusson Ownership History: French & Co. received from Parrish Museum 1/21/1965; returned 10/14/1965. In landscape with trees & flowering plants, youths & maidens playing at blindman's bluff; young man standing blind-folded & flanked by 2 ladies teasing him; others seated, watching the scene; river & building in distance (BRD) alternating acanthus leaf & guilloche spiral A similar tapestry with the same border, albeit composition reversed, is illustrated in Göbel. French & Co. stock sheet in archive, H-560-x Göbel, Wandteppiche II:2 (1928), Ill. 278 Related Works: Compositionally similar tapestries: GCPA 0243088, 0243090, 0243092-0243097, 0243089 (composition reversed); compositionally similar tapestry (larger composition), GCPA 0243086
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