May. Master of the Months of Lucas (Netherlandish (before 1600), 1535) (author of design, attr.) [painter] Audran, Michel (French, 1701-1771) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1732-1771 Tapestry Dimensions: H 10'3' x W 15'3" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Paris Ownership History: Charles M. Ffoulke coll. French & Co. Elisabeth Severance Prentiss (Mrs. Francis F. Prentiss) coll.; given by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art (1944). United States, Ohio, Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art. Inscriptions: Woven signature in lower field, right: AUDRAN Ladies & gentlem
May. Master of the Months of Lucas (Netherlandish (before 1600), 1535) (author of design, attr.) [painter] Audran, Michel (French, 1701-1771) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1732-1771 Tapestry Dimensions: H 10'3' x W 15'3" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Paris Ownership History: Charles M. Ffoulke coll. French & Co. Elisabeth Severance Prentiss (Mrs. Francis F. Prentiss) coll.; given by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art (1944). United States, Ohio, Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art. Inscriptions: Woven signature in lower field, right: AUDRAN Ladies & gentlemen on horseback (R) watch men in archery competition (center); in background, view of village with men & women dancing (BRD) picture-frame border with floral garland inside acanthus spiral, ornate cartouche in corners French & Co. stock sheet missing from archive, no stock number Fénaille, Gobelins 2 (1903-1923), 337-70 Hunter, Practical book of Tapestries (1925), 180 Cleveland, Elisabeth Severance Prentiss coll. (1944), 62, pl. 23 Ffoulke, Collection of Tapestries (1913), 242-45 French & Co., Tapestry collection of Charles M. Ffoulke, Göbel, Wandteppiche II:1 (1928), 143-45 Standen, Tapestries in the Metropolitan 1 (1985), 344 Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0243880-0243882; compositionally similar sets: GCPA 0243812-0243814, 0243817-0243818 (set A), GCPA 0243825-0243830 (Metropolitan Museum of Art set), GCPA 0243847-0243848 (Palazzo Doria set), GCPA 0243834, 0243840-0243846 (Widener set), GCPA 0243851-0243852 (Sotheby's set), GCPA 0243819-0243824 (Toulouse/Noailles set); compositionally similar tapestries: GCPA 0238364 (Brussels)
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