Homage to Pan. Jeaurat, Etienne (French, 1699-1789) (author of design) [painter] Audran, Michel (French, ) (workshop, entrepeneur) [weaver] c. 1740 Tapestry Dimensions: H 10'1" x W 11'7" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Paris Ownership History: French & Co. purchased from Estate of E. [Emilie] de L. Havemeyer 8/4/1915; sold to J. [Joseph] W. Harriman 9/12/1919 [SS 2986]. French & Co. purchased from Plaza Art Auction Galleries (New York), 11/17/1934, lot 346 (Mr. & Mrs. Joseph W. Harriman sale); sold to Mr. Charles Sternberg 2/8/1964 [SS 39655]

Homage to Pan. Jeaurat, Etienne (French, 1699-1789) (author of design) [painter] Audran, Michel (French, ) (workshop, entrepeneur) [weaver] c. 1740 Tapestry Dimensions: H 10'1" x W 11'7" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Paris Ownership History: French & Co. purchased from Estate of E. [Emilie] de L. Havemeyer 8/4/1915; sold to J. [Joseph] W. Harriman 9/12/1919 [SS 2986]. French & Co. purchased from Plaza Art Auction Galleries (New York), 11/17/1934, lot 346 (Mr. & Mrs. Joseph W. Harriman sale); sold to Mr. Charles Sternberg 2/8/1964 [SS 39655]. On L, Chloë reaches for flowers held by Daphnis to place on altar to Pan, center; on R, other figures make offering to altar; landscape setting (BRD) picture-frame border with interlace design, palmette in corners Although this series is included in the literature on the Gobelins manufactory where Audran directed a high-warp atelier, this series was apparently executed privately. French & Co. stock sheet in archive, 39655 French & Co. stock sheet in archive, 2986 Fénaille, Gobelins 4 (1903-1923), 75-83 Göbel, Wandteppiche II:1 (1928), 181 Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0242006-0242008; compositionally similar set: GCPA 0242051-0242052; compositionally similar tapestries: GCPA (cartoon), 0242009, compositionally similar tapestry: GCPA 024210

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