Wolf-kill at a farm. Huet, Jean-Baptiste (French, 1745-1811) (designed after) [painter] c. 1785-1800 Tapestry Dimensions: H 7'5" x W 4'6" 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 Stat
Wolf-kill at a farm. Huet, Jean-Baptiste (French, 1745-1811) (designed after) [painter] c. 1785-1800 Tapestry Dimensions: H 7'5" x W 4'6" 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. In landscape with farmhouse & trees, 3 men with sticks stand ready to hit a wolf laying on ground, while dog subdues the animal; mother stands on the side, holding her child's hand & watching the scene (BRD) scene framed by palm trees forming arch & ornamented by wild flowers at base, wreaths at mid-points, & ribbon-tied floral festoons across arch flanked by birds This design was inspired by the works of Jean-Baptiste Huet, however the designer of this panel has not been identified (Cavallo). This tapestry is labelled identified a Beauvais tapestry, circa 1780, in the North Carolina Museum of Art catalog (Kraak). French & Co. stock sheet in archive, 52113-x-e Raleigh (NCMA), Paintings (1956), 87-88; Chevalier, Aubusson (1988), 158 Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0243156-0243158, 0243164-0243165; compositionally similar tapestry: "Le Loup, la Mère et l'Enfant" Musée Nissim de Camondo (Chevalier, )
Size: 6365px × 11611px
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License: Licensed
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