Maypole dance. Huet, Jean-Baptiste (French, 1745-1811) (designed after) [painter] c. 1785-1800 Tapestry Dimensions: H 7'5" x W 6' Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Aubusson Ownership History: De Luze family, Bordeaux, France. Alfred de Luze, France, 1912. Herbert, First Baron Michelham, Strawberry Hill, London, 1919. Dowager Lady Michelham, Paris, 1927. Capt. Jefferson Davis Cohn, Lady Cunliffe-Owen, 1956. French & Co. purchased from Lady Cunliffe-Owen, received 4/1/1952; sold to North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 1/30/1956. United States, Nort

Maypole dance. Huet, Jean-Baptiste (French, 1745-1811) (designed after) [painter] c. 1785-1800 Tapestry Dimensions: H 7'5" x W 6' Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Aubusson Ownership History: De Luze family, Bordeaux, France. Alfred de Luze, France, 1912. Herbert, First Baron Michelham, Strawberry Hill, London, 1919. Dowager Lady Michelham, Paris, 1927. Capt. Jefferson Davis Cohn, Lady Cunliffe-Owen, 1956. French & Co. purchased from Lady Cunliffe-Owen, received 4/1/1952; sold to North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 1/30/1956. United States, North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art. In landscape with trees, a youth & a girl dance around a pole; 2 girls recline at their feet, one playing the flute (L) & the other holding basket of flowers & with sheep (R), near dog (BRD) scene framed by palm trees forming arch & ornamented by wild flowers at base, wreaths at mid-points, & baskets of flowers at top, with ribbon-tied floral festoons across arch This panel is identified as a Beauvais tapestry, circa 1780, in the North Carolina Museum of Art catalog. French & Co. stock sheet in archive, 52113-x-d Raleigh (NCMA), Paintings (1956), 87-88 Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0243156-0243158, 0243164-0243165; compositionally similar tapestries (with differences): GCPA 0243145, 0243148, 0243152, 0243161, 0243173

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