Harvesting pineapples. Vernansal, Guy-Louis (French, 1648-1729) (author of design, attr.) [painter] Monnoyer, Jean-Baptiste (French, 1636-1699) (author of design) [painter] Belin, Jean-Baptiste I (French, 1653-1715) (author of design) [painter] c. 1700 Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Beauvais Ownership History: Germany, Bavaria, Munich, Schloss Nymphenburg. In landscape with field of pineapples, palm trees & pine trees, woman on L (=Empress?), gestures with fan as 2 workers gather pineapples in wicker baskets in foreground; man picks pineapple as maid kne
Harvesting pineapples. Vernansal, Guy-Louis (French, 1648-1729) (author of design, attr.) [painter] Monnoyer, Jean-Baptiste (French, 1636-1699) (author of design) [painter] Belin, Jean-Baptiste I (French, 1653-1715) (author of design) [painter] c. 1700 Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Beauvais Ownership History: Germany, Bavaria, Munich, Schloss Nymphenburg. In landscape with field of pineapples, palm trees & pine trees, woman on L (=Empress?), gestures with fan as 2 workers gather pineapples in wicker baskets in foreground; man picks pineapple as maid kneels & holds fan in center; harvesters near buildings carry baskets in background (L), six-storied pagoda in distance (UPR & LWR BRD) formal arrangement of acanthus leaves, centered with mask of chinese figure with conical hat, & dragon-like creatures; (L & R BRD) similar scheme, without fantastic creatures in center Initially, famous commissions of this series took place with, notably, 1 set ordered by the duc du Maine & another by his brother the comte de Toulouse; subsequent anonymous commissions followed well into the 18th century. This panel is probably from 1 of these later commissions. Bremer-David, French tapestries & textiles (1997), 80-97 Standen, MetMusJ 11 (1976), 103-17 Badin, La Manufacture de Tapisseries (1909) Göbel, Wandteppiche II:2 (1928), pl. 222 Related Works: Compositionally similar tapestries (same cartoon): GCPA 0241332 (Getty), 0241362, 0241363, 0241367 (smaller composition), "Harvesting Pineapples" Musée Leblanc-Duvernay, Auxerre, France (Standen, p. 113); same border: "Collation" Schloss Nymphenburg, Bavaria (Standen, p. 111), "Luncheon" Bavarian State Property (Göbel, pl. 222)
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