Shore scene with anchored boats and sailors. Vernet, Claude Joseph (French, 1714-1789) (designed after) [painter] c. 1760 Tapestry Dimensions: H 9'6" x W 10'3" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Aubusson Ownership History: Charles Mather Ffoulke Coll., Washington , 1909. Arthur Curtiss James, Esq., 1913. French & Co. Mrs Harding ?. In shore scene near classical triumphal arch (R), a boat being moored with on board sailors unloading merchandise, Turkish merchant with long pipe talking with man & another woman with child in the back; 2 men conversing on th
Shore scene with anchored boats and sailors. Vernet, Claude Joseph (French, 1714-1789) (designed after) [painter] c. 1760 Tapestry Dimensions: H 9'6" x W 10'3" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Aubusson Ownership History: Charles Mather Ffoulke Coll., Washington , 1909. Arthur Curtiss James, Esq., 1913. French & Co. Mrs Harding ?. In shore scene near classical triumphal arch (R), a boat being moored with on board sailors unloading merchandise, Turkish merchant with long pipe talking with man & another woman with child in the back; 2 men conversing on the embankment next to merchandise & dog (R); additional ships with sailors & town along coastline in background Borders missing. The name "Mrs. Harding" is written on the verso of the photograph, possibly alluding to the person last recorded as being the buyer for this panel? The name J. H. Harding appears in other records, in transactions with French & Co. in 1926 & 1938. No French & Co. stock sheet in archive, no stock number Ffoulke, Collection of Tapestries (1913), 297 Boccara, Belles heures de la tapisserie (1971), 211 Göbel, Wandteppiche II:2 (1928), pl. 289 Related Works: Compositionally similar tapestries: GCPA 0243244 (larger composition), 0243243 (with differences); compositionally similar tapestry (smaller composition): "L'Embarquement" Dario Boccara coll. (Boccara, p. 211); compositionally similar tapestry (larger composition, right half): "Le Débarquement" L. Bernheimer (Göbel, pl. 289)
Size: 6144px × 5629px
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