The Animal Tamers, from the "Grotesques" series

between 1689 and 1732

Jean Baptiste Monnoyer, Designer Beauvais Manufactory, Manufacturer

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Title The Animal Tamers, from the "Grotesques" series

Artwork Date between 1689 and 1732

Makers Jean Baptiste Monnoyer (Designer) French, 1636-1699 Beauvais Manufactory (Manufacturer) French

Medium Wool, silk

Dimensions 108 × 153 1/2 inches (274.3 cm × 3 m 89.9 cm)

Classification Tapestries

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Gift of K. T. Keller

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 62.181

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1920, Possibly sold (Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, France);
until 1933, T. E. Stebbins.
until 1962, (French & Co., New York, New York, USA);
1962, K.T. Keller, (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1962-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

J. Badin, LA MANUFACTURE DE TAPISSERIES DE BEAUVAIS, Paris, 1909, p. 56

Göbel, WANDTEPPICHE, vol. II (Die Romanischen Länder), 2 vols, Leipzig, 1928, vol. 2, 215

Detroit Institute of Arts, FOUR HUNDRED YEARS OF TAPESTRIES, February 10-March 8, 1945, no. 41, p. 13

Hartford, CT, Wadsworth Atheneum, 2000 YEARS OF TAPESTRY WEAVING (A Loan Exhibition), December 7, 1951- January 27, 1952

Baltimore Museum of Art, 2000 YEARS OF TAPESTRY WEAVING (A Loan Exhibition), February 27, 1952-March 25, 1952, cat. no. 111, p. 47 (illus pl XV).

B. Jestaz, "The Beauvais Manufactory in 1690," ACTS OF THE TAPESTRY SYMPOSIUM, NOVEMBER 1976, San Francisco, 1979, pp. 187-208

E. Standen, "Some Beauvais Tapestries Related to Berain," ARTS OF THE TAPESTRY SYMPOSIUM NOVEMBER 1976, THE FINE ARTS MUSEUM OF SAN FRANCSICO, San Francisco, 1979, pp. 209-213

Detroit Institute of Arts, THE ART OF CHIVALRY, April 1984-June 1984 (not in cat.)

E. Standen, European Post-Medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985, vol. 2, pp. 441-58

Bennett, A. G., FIVE CENTURIES OF TAPESTRY FROM THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO, San Francisco, 1992, pp. 258-65

Adelson, C. J., EUROPEAN TAPESTRY IN THE MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS, Minneapolis, 1994, pp. 307-21

Lausanne, Bâtiment du Grand Conseil, "Tapisseries de Bruges, Bruxelles et Beauvais, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Chefs-d'oeuvre de la collection Toms." exh. cat. by N. de Reyniès, G. Delmarcel and P. Lüscher, 1995, pp 18-20 (not in exh).

Detroit, DIA, Woven Splendor: Five Centuries of European Tapestry at the Detroit Institute of Arts, July-Sept 1996, cat. no. 15, p. 59, color repro pp. 60-1, b/w det. p. 5 (entry by T. Albainy)

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Jean Baptiste Monnoyer; Beauvais Manufactory, The Animal Tamers, from the "Grotesques" series, between 1689 and 1732, wool, silk. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of K. T. Keller, 62.181.