Gardener. Boucher, François (French, 1703-1770) (author of design, 1734-46) [painter] Besnier, Nicolas (French, ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1750 Tapestry Dimensions: H 10' x W 6'3" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool (warp); wool & silk (weft) Culture: French Weaving Center: Beauvais Ownership History: Comte Henri de Greffuhle coll., until 1937. Sold at Sotheby's, London (Comte Greffuhle sale), 7/23/1937, In garden park, young woman seated on low stone wall with child next to her, on R a boy sitting on the ground holding a watering can & with a rake at his side, statue of Her

Gardener. Boucher, François (French, 1703-1770) (author of design, 1734-46) [painter] Besnier, Nicolas (French, ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1750 Tapestry Dimensions: H 10' x W 6'3" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool (warp); wool & silk (weft) Culture: French Weaving Center: Beauvais Ownership History: Comte Henri de Greffuhle coll., until 1937. Sold at Sotheby's, London (Comte Greffuhle sale), 7/23/1937, In garden park, young woman seated on low stone wall with child next to her, on R a boy sitting on the ground holding a watering can & with a rake at his side, statue of Hercules (Heracles/Herakles) on pedestal to R of boy, beyond the group a flight of stone steps with large vases at top & bottom, trellis on L, woman with parasol & child beyond (BRD) picture-frame border with oak leaf within acanthus guilloche This panel was once part of a larger tapestry measuring H 12' x W 22' & incorporating the Gardener, the Dance & the Pedlar (left to right), as described in the Sotheby's sale catalog of the 1937 Count Greffuhle sale. Apparently the tapestry was cut into 3 parts at some point after the sale. The source of the typescript that accompanies these photographs is unknown. Standen, Tapestries in the Metropolitan 2 (1985), 507-533 Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0245488, 0184784, 0184785; compositionally similar tapestries: 0241389 (Metropolitan Museum of Art), 0241435; see also Standen, p. 521-522

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