Fishing party. Boucher, François (French, 1703-1770) (designed after) [painter] Dumons, Jean-Joseph (French, 1687-1779) (author of design, after Boucher) [painter] Picon family (French, 1700/89-act. ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1755-1770 Tapestry Dimensions: H 7'10" x W 9'3" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Aubusson Ownership History: French & Co. France, Paris, Paris, Gismondi Collection. Inscriptions: City mark in lower guard, center-right: [Manufacture Royale d'Aubusson] Family of fishermen aboard dory docking at pier; bearded man rowing near c
Fishing party. Boucher, François (French, 1703-1770) (designed after) [painter] Dumons, Jean-Joseph (French, 1687-1779) (author of design, after Boucher) [painter] Picon family (French, 1700/89-act. ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1755-1770 Tapestry Dimensions: H 7'10" x W 9'3" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Aubusson Ownership History: French & Co. France, Paris, Paris, Gismondi Collection. Inscriptions: City mark in lower guard, center-right: [Manufacture Royale d'Aubusson] Family of fishermen aboard dory docking at pier; bearded man rowing near child & 2 women, one holding child in back & the other, front, carrying large fish; pagoda in background Borders missing; it may have been woven without one, as the city mark in lower guard suggests (Cavallo). This is the left half of the complete composition, & probably based on the Boucher sketch, albeit not one of the ones used for the rest of the Beauvais tapestry series (Cavallo). Jean-Joseph Dumons had painted in 1742 & 1743 the cartoons of the Tenture chinoise, from Boucher's sketches, for the Beauvais manufactory. Aubusson, interested in having its own series of Tenture chinoise, in turn employed Dumons, before 1754, to adapt Boucher's compositions. However, not all Aubusson compositions of the Tenture chinoise series can be attributed to Dumons. The latter, according to Chevalier, delivered to Aubusson 6 or 7 paintings, along with several compositions specifically for seat furniture. Some of the compositions from the Aubusson Tenture chinoise are therefore likely to have been added after the Dumons contribution, & were painted by other Aubusson artists (Soustelle). The present panel is illustrated in Chevalier, page 116, ill. 1 without the guard, & Chevalier states it was woven in the Picon workshop (Soustelle). Unlike in the complete composition (see GCPA 0243050), the female figure carrying the fish turns her head towards the others in the boat, to the left (Soustell
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