The Concert Champître, forming part of the Fêtes de village à l'italienne was woven at Beauvais to designs by Francois Boucher (d. 1770), while the borders were woven under the direction of Georges Pluyette. The set, comprising eight scenes, was begun in 1734, the year that Boucher entered the French Academy as a history painter and was first employed by the tapestry factory, where Jean Baptiste Oudry (d. 1755) had just been appointed a Director. The scène gallant is set in a woodland clearing, where a courting couple and ladies of the court are seated beside a fountain that is embellished with Venus's dolphins and are entertained by Italian-costumed players, while a garden-maid and her companion watch from a trellised palisade. Originally thought to comprise fourteen scenes, the set is discussed by E. Standen, European post-Medieval tapestries and related hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, vol. II, no. 78, pp. 507-533