. Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers. t sets designed by Oudry for Beauvais after 1734 werethe Metamorphoses (Plate VUl in Chapter XII), in eight pieces;the Fine Verdures, in ten pieces; the Fables of Lafontaine, infour pieces. Undoubtedly, tapestry owes more to Oudry than to any otherman of the eighteenth century. Although his point of view on tap-estry t
. Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers. t sets designed by Oudry for Beauvais after 1734 werethe Metamorphoses (Plate VUl in Chapter XII), in eight pieces;the Fine Verdures, in ten pieces; the Fables of Lafontaine, infour pieces. Undoubtedly, tapestry owes more to Oudry than to any otherman of the eighteenth century. Although his point of view on tap-estry texture, and on the imitation of painting by tapestry, was abso-lutely and hopelessly wrong, his brilliant work at Beauvais revivedthe industry there and brought him the appointment of art directorat the Gobelins also. Even more important than Oudrys own designs for Beauvais,were those he secured from other painters, notably Francois Boucherwho was resj)onsible for no less than six sets in forty-five pieces, repro-duced seven or eight times; in 1743, the Chinese Set, for whichDumons painted the cartoons after Bouchers sketches; in 1749, theLoves of the Gods, in nine pieces; in 1752, Opera Fragments,in five pieces; in 1755, the Noble Pastorale (Plate X), in six pieces, 299. Plate X—FISHING Beauvais tapestvv desijrncd liy Boucher. One nf the famous Xulile Pastorale set 300 GOBELINS. BEAUVAIS, MORTLAKE TAPESTRIES the set of which formerly in the Kami collection, now hangs in aprivate residence in Los Angeles. There is a perfect example, theBird Catchers, in the Whitney Collection in New York City. Bouchers work for Beauvais aroused the jealousy of the weaversat the Gohelins, and in a memorial to the administration dated INIarch10, 1754, the three shop managers, Audran, Cozette, and Neilson,wrote that to prevent the decadence of the Gobelin factory, it wouldbe necessary to attach to it Sr. Boucher, and that for nearly twentyyears the Beauvais factory has been kept up by the attrac
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