A BEAUVAIS TAPESTRY

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A BEAUVAIS TAPESTRY
CIRCA 1760

From the Series "Les Amours des Dieux" after François Boucher, and depicting the Rape of Proserpina, with the goddess swept away by Pluto on his chariot, her frightened companions flee to the right, within a bead and reel and acanthus border, the lower right selvedge signed A.C.C. BEAUVAIS-12ft. 1in. x 10ft. 2in. (3m. 65cm. x 3m. 10cm.)
来源
The Patiño Collection,
Sotheby's New York, 1 November 1986, lot 139

拍品专文

This tapestry is the second in a series by François Boucher known as Les Amours des Dieux and was woven on nine occasions between 1750 and 1769. The initials A.C.C. stand for André-Charlemagne Charron, who became the director of manufactory in 1753 but the design of the border suggests a date not much later than 1760. A very similar example is illustrated by Alexandre Ananoff, François Boucher, Vol. II, no. 345, fig. 1003. See also Badin, La Manufacture de Tapisserie de Beauvais, Paris 1909, pp. 34-36, 61-62. (SPB note - check)