Landscape with exotic fowl and crustaceans near harbor. Kerchove, Joseph van den (Flemish, ) (author of design) [painter] Campion, Adrien (French, ) (author of design) [painter] Mérou, Noël Antoine de (French, ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1723 Tapestry Dimensions: H 8' x W 12'3" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Beauvais Ownership History: French & Co. A variety of fowl & other birds amongst shells, wild plants & trees on shore in foreground; large vessels near fortified harbor town on either side of composition with human figure
Landscape with exotic fowl and crustaceans near harbor. Kerchove, Joseph van den (Flemish, ) (author of design) [painter] Campion, Adrien (French, ) (author of design) [painter] Mérou, Noël Antoine de (French, ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1723 Tapestry Dimensions: H 8' x W 12'3" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Beauvais Ownership History: French & Co. A variety of fowl & other birds amongst shells, wild plants & trees on shore in foreground; large vessels near fortified harbor town on either side of composition with human figures (L) in background Borders missing. The series of hangings titled "Port de Mer", the cartoons for which were designed by Kerchove & Campion, was woven several times at Beauvais under the direction of Noël-Antoine Mérou (1722-1734). Badin shows that the Ports de mer series comprises 2 sets of hangings: one composed of 6 panels, around 1723, followed by another integrating 4 of the initial hanging, in 1732. This panel may have been one of the Ports de mer series' scenes designed by Kerchove & Campion & woven in de Mérou workshop at Beauvais around 1723. Badin highlights a November 3, 1732 inventory listing a Port de mer piece as painted by sieur Le Pape. This leads one to believe that there may have been more painters involved in the Ports de mer series. The circumstances in which the series was created remains unclear & there is a paucity of information regarding the specific scenes of the series, according to Jules Guiffrey (introduction for Badin). No French & Co. stock sheet in archive, no stock number Badin, La Manufacture de Tapisseries (1909), iv, 54
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