Girls with grapes. Boucher, François (French, 1703-1770) (author of design, 1734-46) [painter] Besnier, Nicolas (French, ) (workshop) [weaver] Charron, André-Charlemagne (French, ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1736-1760 Tapestry Dimensions: H x W m Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool (warp); wool & silk (weft) Culture: French Weaving Center: Beauvais Ownership History: French & Co. ?. Italy, Lazio, Roma, Rome, Palazzo Venezia (?). 2 girls on bank of earth, one seated & one reclining & holding stick with grapevine twisted around it, face crouching woman with basket
Girls with grapes. Boucher, François (French, 1703-1770) (author of design, 1734-46) [painter] Besnier, Nicolas (French, ) (workshop) [weaver] Charron, André-Charlemagne (French, ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1736-1760 Tapestry Dimensions: H x W m Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool (warp); wool & silk (weft) Culture: French Weaving Center: Beauvais Ownership History: French & Co. ?. Italy, Lazio, Roma, Rome, Palazzo Venezia (?). 2 girls on bank of earth, one seated & one reclining & holding stick with grapevine twisted around it, face crouching woman with basket of grapes who extends her hand towards the pair; stream in foreground; single tree & path leading to arched bridge with building on stilts (L), another bridge (center) & ruined building (R) in distance (BRD) picture-frame border with oak leaf within acanthus guilloche, fleur-de-lys in corners This scene, shown alone in this panel, is usually shown with the Hunters. The subjects of the panels in the set belonging to the Palazzo Venezia, Rome (from the San Donato sale, Florence, 3/15/1880, no. 36), Charlatan, Fortune teller, Girl with grapes, Hunter & Girl fishing, & Standen's descriptions of the individualizing aspects of those panels, correspond with the panels of the set represented in these photographs. No French & Co. stock sheet in archive, no stock number Standen, Tapestries in the Metropolitan 2 (1985), 507-533 Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0241401-0241410; compositionally similar tapestries (same cartoon): 0241385 (Metropolitan Museum of Art), 0241398 (Huntington Art Gallery), 0241413, 0241429; see also Standen, p. 525-526
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