Psyche and the basketmaker. Boucher, François (French, 1703-1770) (cartoon creator) [painter] Oudry, Jean-Baptiste (French, 1686-1755) (workshop) [painter] Besnier, Nicolas (French, ) (workshop) [weaver] Charron, André-Charlemagne (French, ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1741 Tapestry Dimensions: H 11'" x W 8'" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk, (warp: 20-22/cm), modern cotton linings Culture: French Weaving Center: Beauvais Ownership History: Part of a set of 5 tapestries commissioned by Louis XV & delivered to the Départment des Affaires Etrangères. Edward C
Psyche and the basketmaker. Boucher, François (French, 1703-1770) (cartoon creator) [painter] Oudry, Jean-Baptiste (French, 1686-1755) (workshop) [painter] Besnier, Nicolas (French, ) (workshop) [weaver] Charron, André-Charlemagne (French, ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1741 Tapestry Dimensions: H 11'" x W 8'" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk, (warp: 20-22/cm), modern cotton linings Culture: French Weaving Center: Beauvais Ownership History: Part of a set of 5 tapestries commissioned by Louis XV & delivered to the Départment des Affaires Etrangères. Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh (1847-1927), London; by descent to Walter Guinness (London). Jacques Seligmann (Paris), by 1931 (). French & Co. (?). Acquired by J. Paul Getty, 1938. J. Paul Getty Museum, 1963. United States, California, Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, accno. Inscriptions: Woven signature on rock at lower left: In wooded vale, amid coarsly fenced enclosure, Psyche steps down path supported on arm of bearded man (=Pan), head of goat on L, Ceres & Proserpine seated on R next to rustic shelter; arms of France & Navarre at top center In the French & Co. photo, GCPA 0243694, there is a narrow border on the panel with U-shaped leaves & an inner bead-&-reel band No French & Co. stock sheet in archive, no stock number Bremer-David, French tapestries & textiles (1997), 106-119, cat. 11 a Hiesinger, PhilMusBull 72, no. 314 (Nov., 1976), 7-23 Cecil, BurlMag (April 1956), 118 Related Works: Compositionally similar tapestries (same cartoon): 0243686 (Quirinale), 0243691 (Philadelphia), 0243695, 0243707; see also Bremer-David, p. 117
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