Tea party. Boucher, François (French, 1703-1770) (designed after) [painter] Dumons, Jean-Joseph (French, 1687-1779) (author of design, after Boucher) [painter] Picon family (French, 1700/89-act. ) [weaver] c. 1755-1780 Tapestry Dimensions: H x W m Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Aubusson Ownership History: Jacques Seligmann & Co. Inscriptions: City mark on lower guard, center-right: (inverted R) [Manufacture Royale d'Aubusson]. Inscriptions: Woven signature in lower guard, center-right: [P]ICON. In landscape, chinese man seated at
Tea party. Boucher, François (French, 1703-1770) (designed after) [painter] Dumons, Jean-Joseph (French, 1687-1779) (author of design, after Boucher) [painter] Picon family (French, 1700/89-act. ) [weaver] c. 1755-1780 Tapestry Dimensions: H x W m Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Aubusson Ownership History: Jacques Seligmann & Co. Inscriptions: City mark on lower guard, center-right: (inverted R) [Manufacture Royale d'Aubusson]. Inscriptions: Woven signature in lower guard, center-right: [P]ICON. In landscape, chinese man seated at table leans towards lady & converses with her; the couple seated & attended by servants, one holding parasol in background & the other serving tea (L); bird on percher hung from pagoda-shaped wooden shack (R), & basket of flowers in foreground Borders missing; fragment (Campbell). This scene is the central part of the complete composition, & is based on a sketch by François Boucher, but not one of those used for the rest of the Beauvais tapestry series. The complete composition also includes, to the left, an attendant pouring tea near a kiln & a child lying on ground, & to the far right, a shopper with a shepherd. This panel, though, does not include the 2 figures seated underneath the parrot, near the flower-filled basket laying in foreground, as seen in other panels of the same series (Soustelle). Jean-Joseph Dumons had painted in 1742 & 1743 the cartoons of the Tenture chinoise, from Boucher's sketches, for the Beauvais manufactory. Aubusson, interested in having its own series of Tenture chinoise, in turn employed Dumons, before 1754, to adapt Boucher's compositions. However, not all Aubusson compositions of the Tenture chinoise series can be attributed to Dumons. The latter, according to Chevalier, delivered to Aubusson 6 or 7 paintings, along with several compositions specifically for seat furniture. Some of the compositions from the Aubusson Tenture chinoise are theref
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