Fantastic landscape with outcrop and wooden bridge. Pillement, Jean (French, 1728-1808) (designed after) [painter] Dorliac, Jacques (French, fl. 1715-1742) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1725 Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Aubusson Ownership History: Countess Guy de Pourtales coll., Paris (?) [written on verso of photo]. French & Co. Landscape with bird in foreground framed by pair of leafy, flowering trees; outcrop with staircase leading to pavilion; hill with larger pavilion in the distance & bridge (L) (BRD) narrow border with stylized trefoil-like band There
Fantastic landscape with outcrop and wooden bridge. Pillement, Jean (French, 1728-1808) (designed after) [painter] Dorliac, Jacques (French, fl. 1715-1742) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1725 Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Aubusson Ownership History: Countess Guy de Pourtales coll., Paris (?) [written on verso of photo]. French & Co. Landscape with bird in foreground framed by pair of leafy, flowering trees; outcrop with staircase leading to pavilion; hill with larger pavilion in the distance & bridge (L) (BRD) narrow border with stylized trefoil-like band There is a similar tapestry in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. That tapestry was probably woven by Jacques Dorliac, Written on verso of GCPA 0243438-0243439, "one of five tapestries, Milton S. [Samuels]". No French & Co. stock sheet in archive, no stock number Standen, Tapestries in the Metropolitan (1985), Cat. 95 Related Works: Compositionally similar tapestry: GCPA 0243440; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), , "Fantastic landscape"
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