Piggy-back. Huet, Jean-Baptiste (French, 1745-1811) (designed after) [painter] c. 1780-1810 Tapestry Dimensions: H 8'5" x W 5'7" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Aubusson Ownership History: André Manassé Coll. Jacques Seligmann & Co. French & Co. In landscape with trees, river & flowering plants near farmhouse (L), a group of 4 boys playing piggy- back as another boy approaches (L); bridge & village with church in distance Borders missing. The present scene is part of a larger composition, as exemplified in GCPA: 0243123 & GCPA: 0243129 (cited below). Ther

Piggy-back. Huet, Jean-Baptiste (French, 1745-1811) (designed after) [painter] c. 1780-1810 Tapestry Dimensions: H 8'5" x W 5'7" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Aubusson Ownership History: André Manassé Coll. Jacques Seligmann & Co. French & Co. In landscape with trees, river & flowering plants near farmhouse (L), a group of 4 boys playing piggy- back as another boy approaches (L); bridge & village with church in distance Borders missing. The present scene is part of a larger composition, as exemplified in GCPA: 0243123 & GCPA: 0243129 (cited below). There are variants to this scene, with the inclusion or absence of a maiden to the far left, a young boy coming towards the main group of young boys (L), or a woman with a child near a fountain (R). These scenes come in several possible combinations. Jacques Seligmann & Co. stock sheet in archive, 12814 French & Co. stock sheet missing from archive, 17241-a Boccara, Belles heures de la tapisserie (1971), 217 Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0243084-0243085, 0243101, 0243122; compositionally similar tapestries: GCPA 0243121, 0243126, "Le cheval fondu" Boccara coll. (Boccara, ); compositionally similar tapestries (with variations), GCPA 0243125, 0243128, 0243130: 0243131; compositionally similar tapestries (full composition), GCPA 0243123, 0243129

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