Outdoor market scene with couple and recruiting sergeant. Jeaurat, Etienne (French, 1699-1789) (designed after) [painter] c. 1765-1770 Tapestry Dimensions: H 9'8" x W 18'4" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Aubusson Ownership History: French & Co. received from Mrs. John S. Rogers, invoiced 1/12/1934; returned 10/17/1934. United States, Illinois, Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago. Outdoor market in village with church & buildings amongst stalls with merchants peddling merchandise (R); servant-girl carrying tray with food on her head going toward group of gi
Outdoor market scene with couple and recruiting sergeant. Jeaurat, Etienne (French, 1699-1789) (designed after) [painter] c. 1765-1770 Tapestry Dimensions: H 9'8" x W 18'4" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Aubusson Ownership History: French & Co. received from Mrs. John S. Rogers, invoiced 1/12/1934; returned 10/17/1934. United States, Illinois, Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago. Outdoor market in village with church & buildings amongst stalls with merchants peddling merchandise (R); servant-girl carrying tray with food on her head going toward group of girls dancing, in center & near lady & gentleman conversing; woman kneeling with group of children gathered around a sun dial in foreground & near 2 horsemen with oriental attire interacting with another group of people (R); a young couple sitting at table next to inn converse & drink with recruiting sergeant, while woman seated on chair cuts flowers & another a loaf of bread for man (L); flowering plants amongst vase, bucket, broom & basket laying in foreground; gathering of people in distance Borders missing (Soustelle). The group figures on the left half was copied after the Gobelins series Les Fêtes de Village, designed by Etienne Jeaurat. The group figures specifically relates to Jeaurat's scene le Sergent Recruteur, as stated in Fénaille (Kraak/Soustelle). The stock sheet indicates that an inscription on a banner born by the horseman to the right, reads in part "Roby" (hardly visible on photograph). It suggests that it may be the signature of Jean Roby le Jeune, an Aubusson weaver between 1750 & 1773. There is, however, no visible conforming mark or signature in the lower part of the field (Soustelle). French & Co. stock sheet in archive, 18079 Fénaille, Gobelins 4 (1903-1923), 172 Göbel, Wandteppiche II:2 (1928), Related Works: Compositionally similar tapestries (smaller composition): GCPA 0243132, "Les Fêtes de Village" Kunstgewerbe-Museum (Göbel, ), GC
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