The huntsmen. unknown c. 1750-1800 Tapestry Dimensions: H 9'3" x W 5'9" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Aubusson Ownership History: Charles Mather Ffoulke coll., Washington , 1909. Cornelius K. G. Billings 1913. French & Co. purchased from Mrs. B. N. Duke, received 9/14/1917; sold to J. W. Harriman 9/12/1919 [SS 4422-a]. French & Co. purchased from Plaza Art Gallery J. W. Harriman sale, invoiced 11/15/1934; sold to J. J. Gillespie Co. 11/2/1937 [SS 39656-a]. In landscape with trees, hunter standing with his shotgun converses with woman laying on ground
The huntsmen. unknown c. 1750-1800 Tapestry Dimensions: H 9'3" x W 5'9" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Aubusson Ownership History: Charles Mather Ffoulke coll., Washington , 1909. Cornelius K. G. Billings 1913. French & Co. purchased from Mrs. B. N. Duke, received 9/14/1917; sold to J. W. Harriman 9/12/1919 [SS 4422-a]. French & Co. purchased from Plaza Art Gallery J. W. Harriman sale, invoiced 11/15/1934; sold to J. J. Gillespie Co. 11/2/1937 [SS 39656-a]. In landscape with trees, hunter standing with his shotgun converses with woman laying on ground with child (L); another hunter dozes off on rock with his hands clasped over his shotgun (R); both hunters flank hound dog drinking from stream (BRD) picture-frame border with cabochons interspersed with flowers & acanthus leaves in corners The tapestry is the right half of the larger composition at the Musée du Petit Palais, Paris (Campbell). This panel is cited (not illustrated) in The Ffoulke Collection of Tapestries as "The huntsmen", p. 280-1 (Soustelle). French & Co. stock sheet in archive, 4422-a French & Co. stock sheet in archive, 39656-a Ffoulke, Collection of Tapestries (1913), 280-81 Chevalier, Aubusson (1988), 146 Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0240441-0240442, 0240448; compositionally similar tapestries: GCPA 0240446, 0240490; compositionally similar tapestries (entire composition): GCPA 0240437 [also illustrated as "La Halte des Chasseurs" Paris, Musée du Petit Palais (Chevalier, 146)], 0240438, 0240489; similar border: GCPA 0240450
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