Offering to Cupid. Huet, Jean-Baptiste (French, 1745-1811) (author of design) [painter] Boucher, François (French, 1703-1770) (designed after, some figures (?)) [painter] De Menou (French, act. 1780-1793) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1780-1790 Tapestry Dimensions: H 10'10" x W 7'9" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool (warp); wool & silk (weft) Culture: French Weaving Center: Beauvais Ownership History: Goldschmidt-Rothschild coll., Berlin. French & Co. Kneeling man & 2 standing women offer floral garland to statue of Cupid on pedestal, dog on L watches, seated man & woman on R wrap floral garland ar
Offering to Cupid. Huet, Jean-Baptiste (French, 1745-1811) (author of design) [painter] Boucher, François (French, 1703-1770) (designed after, some figures (?)) [painter] De Menou (French, act. 1780-1793) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1780-1790 Tapestry Dimensions: H 10'10" x W 7'9" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool (warp); wool & silk (weft) Culture: French Weaving Center: Beauvais Ownership History: Goldschmidt-Rothschild coll., Berlin. French & Co. Kneeling man & 2 standing women offer floral garland to statue of Cupid on pedestal, dog on L watches, seated man & woman on R wrap floral garland around sheep, 2 more sheep on R & L (BRD) scene framed by pair of palm trees with tall flowering stems at base, climbing monkeys at mid-points, & drapery, floral garland & tassels on cord looped from tree to tree across top; narrow leafy border on sides Some figures may be after Boucher. French & Co. stock sheet missing from archive, 7871-b French & Co. stock sheet missing from archive, 39172-b Standen, Tapestries in the Metropolitan 2 (1985), 557-563 Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0184859, 0188309, 0241740-0241741, 0241745-0241746, 0241748-0241749; compositionally similar tapestries: GCPA 0241726 (Set B), see also Standen, p. 560-562
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