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] (French) [weaver] c. 1736-1760 Tapestry Dimensions: H x W m Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool (warp); wool & silk (weft) Culture: French Weaving Center: Beauvais Ownership History: Paul Dutasta coll., until 1926. France, Paris, Paris, Galérie Georges Petit, June 3-4, 1926, lot 193. Inscriptions: Woven signature on building building stone on left: BOUCHER
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] (French) [weaver] c. 1736-1760 Tapestry Dimensions: H x W m Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool (warp); wool & silk (weft) Culture: French Weaving Center: Beauvais Ownership History: Paul Dutasta coll., until 1926. France, Paris, Paris, Galérie Georges Petit, June 3-4, 1926, lot 193. Inscriptions: Woven signature on building building stone on left: BOUCHER / 1762 (backwards) 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 round temple in background (BRD) picture-frame border with oak leaf within acanthus guilloche Like the Huntington panel, this panel has a large tree trunk framing the R side of the composition; but in this case, there are additional landscape elements to the R of the tree (Steele). A drawing at the J. Paul Getty Museum, by Boucher, shows the reclining male figure playing a mandolin (see related works below) (Bremer-David). Standen, Tapestries in the Metropolitan 2 (1985), 507-533 Related Works: Compositionally similar tapestries (same cartoon): 0241396 (Huntington Art Gallery), 0241409 (Palazzo Venezia?), 0241416 (Philadelphia Museum
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