Girls with grapes and Hunter. Boucher, François (French, 1703-1770) (author of design, 1734-46) [painter] Besnier, Nicolas (French, ) (workshop) [weaver] Charron, André-Charlemagne (French, ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1750 Tapestry Dimensions: H 8'9" x W 6'" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool (warp); wool & silk (weft) Culture: French Weaving Center: Beauvais Ownership History: Count Harrach coll. Acquired by Henry E. Huntington in 1920. United States, California, San Marino, Huntington Library, Art Gallery and Botanical Gardens, accno. 2 girls on bank of ear
Girls with grapes and Hunter. Boucher, François (French, 1703-1770) (author of design, 1734-46) [painter] Besnier, Nicolas (French, ) (workshop) [weaver] Charron, André-Charlemagne (French, ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1750 Tapestry Dimensions: H 8'9" x W 6'" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool (warp); wool & silk (weft) Culture: French Weaving Center: Beauvais Ownership History: Count Harrach coll. Acquired by Henry E. Huntington in 1920. United States, California, San Marino, Huntington Library, Art Gallery and Botanical Gardens, accno. 2 girls on bank of earth, one seated & one reclining & holding stick with grapevine twisted around it, face crouching woman with basket of grapes who extends her hand towards the pair (L); young man, seated on grassy bank, holds gun & caresses dog, 2 dead rabbits are under dog's paw, behind him groom holds 2 horses as one drinks from large fountain, 2 dogs in front of groom; beyond figures are bridge, ruined wall or structure & cottage with thatched roof (BRD) picture-frame border with oak leaf within acanthus guilloche This is a made-up set; the panels were acquired from different sources & were almost certainly woven at different times. The borders are a modern addition. Standen, Tapestries in the Metropolitan 2 (1985), 507-533 Wark, Huntington (1961), 67-68 Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0241395-0241396, 0241398-0241400; compositionally similar tapestries: 0241385 & 0241387 (Metropolitan Museum of Art), 0241405 & 0241402 (Palazzo Venezia?), 0241415 (Philadelphia Museum of Art), 0241413, 0241429; see also Standen, p. 523-526
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