AUBUSSON, MID-18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY AFTER JACQUES-NICOLAS JUILLIARD

Jacques-Nicolas Juillard (d. 1790) studied under François Boucher and after travelling to Italy in 1749, he was commissioned to design a tapestry series for the marchand-mercier Mathieu Dessarteaux, which determined Juillard's subsequent career. He succeeded Jean-Joseph Dumons in 1755 as peintre des manufactures d'Aubusson et de Felletin. Surprisingly none of his designs for Gobelins, Beauvais or Aubusson have as yet been categorically identified, although it is known that he supplied at least thirteen series between 1755 and 1782 and continued to design tapestries until 1789.

A tapestry of identical design, woven by Pierre Dumonteil, is illustrated in D. and P. Chevalier and P.-F. Bertrand, Les Tapisseries d'Aubusson et de Felletin, Paris, 1988, p. 148.