About the Artwork
Tapestry Panels Mounted in a Later Screen
c. 1760
François Boucher (Designer) French, 1703-1770 Gobelins Tapestry Manufactory (Manufacturer) French, active 1662 - present
Wool and silk (in modern frame of gilded wood)
Overall: 70 1/2 × 90 inches (179.1 × 228.6 cm) Overall (Panel): 32 × 19 7/8 inches (81.3 × 50.5 cm) Overall (Leaf width): 23 inches (58.4 cm)
Tapestries
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband
71.181
Public Domain
Markings
Paper label on back of frame (Duveen Brothers inventory number): 29116
Provenance
Charles Wertheimer (London, England);Herbert Stern;
Before 1912, Lord Michelham, K.C.V.O. (Paris, France (?));
(Duveen Brothers, New York, USA);
1935, purchased by Anna Thomson Dodge, (Greene Point, Michigan, USA);
1971-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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le Blanc, C. Manuel de l'Amateur d'Estampes, vol. 2. Paris, 1856, p. 153, nos. 190-192; p. 411, no. 3.
Molinier, E. "Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle." Les Arts, no. 1 (January 1902): p. 19, (ill.).
Molinier, E. Le Mobilier Royal Francais aux XVII et XVIII Siecles, vol. 1. Paris, 1902, no. 4, (pl. 56).
Michel, A. François Boucher, vol. 3. Paris, 1906, nos. 1979, 140; no. 2545.
Fenaille, M. Etats General des Tapisseroes de la Manufacture des Gobelins Depuis l'Origine Jusqu'a nos Jours 1600-1900, vol. 4. Paris, 1904-1907, pp. 348-349, 387-388.
Lord Michelham: Catalogue of Works of Art. London, 1912, p. 42 (ill.).
A Catalogue of Works of Art of the Eighteenth Century in the Collection of Anna Thomson Dodge, vol. 1. Detroit, 1939, [unpaginated].
Ananoff, A. L'Oeuvre Dessine de François Boucher: Catalogue Raisonne, vol. 1. Paris, 1966, pp. 24-25, no. 5, (fig. 1).
Jarry, M. "Esquisses et Maquettes de Tapisseries du XVIIIe Siècle pour les Manufactures Royales (Gobelins et Beauvais)." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 73 (February 1969): pp. 111-118; p. 115, (fig. 7).
Ananoff, A., and D. Wildenstein. François Boucher, vol. 2. Lausanne, 1976, p. 68, no. 367; p. 70, no. 267/15; pp. 103-104, no. 414; p. 125, no. 437; p. 134, no. 5a.
Jean-Richar, P. L'oeuvre gravé de François Boucher. Paris, 1978, pp. 76-77, no. 196; pp. 207-209, no. 780; pp. 240-241, no. 933; p. 294, no. 1194 [Musée du Louvre, Cabinet des Dessins, Collection Edmond de Rothschild].
Standen, E. "Country Children: Some Enfants de Boucher in Gobelins Tapestry." Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal 29 (1994): pp. 111-133.
Dell, T., et al. The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-Century French and English Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York & Detroit, 1996, pp. 147-150, no. 38; pp. 148-149 (repr.) [entry by H.H. Hawley].
Woven Splendor: Five Centuries of European Tapestry at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1996, pp. 15, 64, cat. no. 17; p. 65 (color repr.), [entry by T. Albainy].
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François Boucher; Gobelins Tapestry Manufactory, Tapestry Panels Mounted in a Later Screen, c. 1760, Wool and silk (in modern frame of gilded wood). Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.181.
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