Swing, Harvest, and Cherry picking. Huet, Jean-Baptiste (French, 1745-1811) (author of design) [painter] De Menou (French, act. 1780-1793) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1782-1790 Tapestry Dimensions: H 11'8" x W 19'3" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool (warp: 8/cm); wool & silk (weft) Culture: French Weaving Center: Beauvais Ownership History: French & Co. purchased from Jacques Seligmann et fils 6/5/1920; sold to Thelma Foy 8/21/1939. Exhibited at Toledo Museum of Art 1933. Given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Mrs. Byron C. Foy, 1953. United States, New York, New York, The Metropolitan Museum
Swing, Harvest, and Cherry picking. Huet, Jean-Baptiste (French, 1745-1811) (author of design) [painter] De Menou (French, act. 1780-1793) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1782-1790 Tapestry Dimensions: H 11'8" x W 19'3" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool (warp: 8/cm); wool & silk (weft) Culture: French Weaving Center: Beauvais Ownership History: French & Co. purchased from Jacques Seligmann et fils 6/5/1920; sold to Thelma Foy 8/21/1939. Exhibited at Toledo Museum of Art 1933. Given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Mrs. Byron C. Foy, 1953. United States, New York, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accno. Swing: boy on swing with tree on L, girl on R holds rope attached to swing, boy with lamb sits at her feet, girl seated on ground on L looks towards figures. Harvest: girl running from boy holding shepherd's crook, 3 sheep to L of girl, in L foreground is spraling child holding goat on ribbon with darker goat in front, in R middle ground is a woman reaping with a sicle in a field of wheat, small stream behind goats. Cherry picking: young man on ladder propped against tree hands cherries to 2 young women below one holding cherries in her apron & the other holding a small basket; little boy feeds cherries to chickens (BRD) 4 palm trees with tall flowering hollyhock stems at base frame scenes, drapery & spiral garland looped from tree to tree with tasselled cord in center, pheasant on top of each central tree French & Co. stock sheet in archive, 22706 Standen, Tapestries in the Metropolitan 2 (1985), 557-563 Related Works: Compositionally similar tapestries: Swing: GCPA 0241732 (Petit Palais 2, without draperies), 0241742 (Louvre), 0241755 (Victoria & Albert Museum), 0241753 (Ex. Cooper coll.); Cherry picking: GCPA 0241727 (Set B), 0241750 (Ex. Cooper coll.), 0241739 (Petit Palais set 2); see also Standen, p. 560-562
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