Bird nesters. Huet, Jean-Baptiste (French, 1745-1811) (designed after) [painter] c. 1785-1800 Tapestry Dimensions: H 7'8" x W 8'6" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Aubusson Ownership History: De Luze family, Bordeaux, France. Alfred de Luze, France, 1912. Herbert, First Baron Michelham, Strawberry Hill, London, 1919. Dowager Lady Michelham, Paris, 1927. Capt. Jefferson Davis Cohn, Lady Cunliffe-Owen, 1956. French & Co. purchased from Lady Cunliffe-Owen, received 4/1/1952; sold to North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 1/30/1956. United States, Nor
Bird nesters. Huet, Jean-Baptiste (French, 1745-1811) (designed after) [painter] c. 1785-1800 Tapestry Dimensions: H 7'8" x W 8'6" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Aubusson Ownership History: De Luze family, Bordeaux, France. Alfred de Luze, France, 1912. Herbert, First Baron Michelham, Strawberry Hill, London, 1919. Dowager Lady Michelham, Paris, 1927. Capt. Jefferson Davis Cohn, Lady Cunliffe-Owen, 1956. French & Co. purchased from Lady Cunliffe-Owen, received 4/1/1952; sold to North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 1/30/1956. United States, North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art. A young man perched in tree reaching for a nest as birds fly away & girl on ground holds small cage; lovers reclining, with girl holding a bird & with sheep on her side; rabbits (L) & nest with birds (R) in foreground; building in distance (L) (BRD) scene framed by palm trees forming arch & ornamented by wild flowers at base, wreaths at mid-points, & baskets of flowers at top, with ribbon-tied floral festoons across arch This tapestry is labelled identified a Beauvais tapestry, circa 1780, in the North Carolina Museum of Art catalog. French & Co. stock sheet in archive, 52113-x-b Raleigh (NCMA), Paintings (1956), 87-88 Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0243156-0243158, 0243164-0243165; compositionally similar tapestries (with differences): GCPA 0243144, 0243150, 0243153, 0243162 (composition reversed)
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