Charlatan and peep show. Boucher, François (French, 1703-1770) (author of design, 1734-46) [painter] Besnier, Nicolas (French, ) (workshop) [weaver] Charron, André-Charlemagne (French, ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1736-1760 Tapestry Dimensions: H x W 5 m Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool (warp); wool & silk (weft) Culture: French Weaving Center: Beauvais Ownership History: San Donato sale, Rome, 3/15/1880, no. 36?. French & Co. ?. Italy, Lazio, Roma, Rome, Palazzo Venezia (?). Inscriptions: Woven signature on building building stone on left: BOVCHER Charlatan wearin
Charlatan and peep show. Boucher, François (French, 1703-1770) (author of design, 1734-46) [painter] Besnier, Nicolas (French, ) (workshop) [weaver] Charron, André-Charlemagne (French, ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1736-1760 Tapestry Dimensions: H x W 5 m Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool (warp); wool & silk (weft) Culture: French Weaving Center: Beauvais Ownership History: San Donato sale, Rome, 3/15/1880, no. 36?. French & Co. ?. Italy, Lazio, Roma, Rome, Palazzo Venezia (?). Inscriptions: Woven signature on building building stone on left: BOVCHER Charlatan wearing turban & standing on platform beneath canopy holds flask in 1 hand & places other on cupboard, next to him is seated young woman assistant holding wand & accompanied by monkey, & male assistant blowing trumpet; 6 spectators stand on L; below charlatan 4 figures around cylinder with clocklike top gamble for oublies or plaisirs; 3 spectators to R of platform; to R of groups young man operates peep show with 1 woman with child looking through open peep hole in wagon as another woman with children stands behind her; musical group to R of peep show: seated youth places arm around seated woman who holds open score in lap, another youth, reclining on cloak, strums mandolin, an open score held on his knees; ruins of temple in background (BRD) picture-frame border with oak leaf within acanthus guilloche, fleur-de-lys in corners A drawing at the J. Paul Getty Museum, by Boucher, shows the reclining male figure playing a mandolin (see related works below) (Bremer-David). The subjects of the panels in the set belonging to the Palazzo Venezia, Rome (from the San Donato sale, Florence, 3/15/1880, no. 36), Charlatan, Fortune teller, Girl with grapes, Hunter & Girl fishing, & Standen's descriptions of the individualizing aspects of those panels, correspond with the panels of the set represented in these photographs (Steele). No French & Co. stock sheet in archive, no stock number Standen,
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