Tea party. Boucher, François (French, 1703-1770) (designed after) [painter] Dumons, Jean-Joseph (French, 1687-1779) (author of design, after Boucher) [painter] c. 1750-1780 Tapestry Dimensions: H 9'11" x W 9'8" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Aubusson Ownership History: French & Co. In landscape, chinese man seated at table leans towards lady & converses with her; the couple seated & attended by servant holding parasol above them in background; bird on percher hung from pagoda-like wooden shack, & children, one drinking from bowl near basket of flowers in
Tea party. Boucher, François (French, 1703-1770) (designed after) [painter] Dumons, Jean-Joseph (French, 1687-1779) (author of design, after Boucher) [painter] c. 1750-1780 Tapestry Dimensions: H 9'11" x W 9'8" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Aubusson Ownership History: French & Co. In landscape, chinese man seated at table leans towards lady & converses with her; the couple seated & attended by servant holding parasol above them in background; bird on percher hung from pagoda-like wooden shack, & children, one drinking from bowl near basket of flowers in foreground (BRD) picture-frame border with acanthus leaves & peacock feathers framing cabochons of precious stones, alternating with shaped reserves of trellis pattern headed with rosettes; cabochon framed by acanthus leaves & topped by scallop in corners This composition is the central part only of The Tea-Party, a larger composition, & is probably based on a sketch by François Boucher, held at the Musée des Beaux Arts et d'Archéologie, Besançon, France (Campbell/Cavallo). The complete composition also includes, to the left, an attendant pouring tea near a kiln, a child serving tea & another on the ground, & to the far right, a shopper with a shepherd. This tapestry, thus a fragment, may have been part of a larger tapestry with GCPA 0243048 & GCPA 0243074, with which it is in set & they all could be the fragments which used to form the complete tapestry (Soustelle). Jean-Joseph Dumons had painted in 1742 & 1743 the cartoons of the Tenture chinoise, from Boucher's sketches, for the Beauvais manufactory. Aubusson, interested in having its own series of Tenture chinoise, in turn employed Dumons, before 1754, to adapt Boucher's compositions. However, not all Aubusson compositions of the Tenture chinoise series can be attributed to Dumons. The latter, according to Chevalier, delivered to Aubusson 6 or 7 paintings, along with several compositions specifically for seat furnitur
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