Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum

Height: 11 ft. 4Η in. (347 cm); Width:
8 ft. 9 % in. (267 cm)
Accession number 83 .DD.20

PROVENANCE
Delivered to the Garde Meuble de la
Couronne on October 27, 1717; Mme
Fulco de Bourbon, Patterson, New York;
Michael de Bourbon (son of Mme Fulco
de Bourbon), Pikeville, Kentucky.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Maurice Fenaille, Etat general des tapisseries
de la Manufacture des Gobelins (Paris, 1903),
vol. 2, pp. 16-22; Wilson, Selections, no. 8,
pp. 16-17, illus.; Bremer-David, "Acquisi­
tions 1983," no. 3, pp. 183-185, 187, illus.;
"Acquisitions/1983," GettyMusJ 12 (1984),
no. 5, p. 263, illus.; Handbook 1986, p. 147,
illus.; enlarged detail p. 140.

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291. Tapestry, The Loves of the Gods:
     Bacchus and Ariadne, Jupiter and
     Antiope
     Beauvais manufactory, circa 1722-1749
     Woven after paintings by Fransois Boucher
     Wool and silk
     Height: 12 ft. (366 cm); Width: 24 ft. 9 in.
     (754 cm)
     Accession number 63.DD. 6
     PROVENANCE
     (?) Royal family of Portugal; Jules Paul
     Porgιs, Portugal and later Paris; C. Ledyard
     Blair; [French and Co., New York, 1937];
     purchased by J. Paul Getty, 1937.
     EXHIBITIONS
     New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, French
     and English Art Treasures of the United States,
     December 20-30,1942, no. 241, p. 39.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

M. Vaucaire, "Les Tapisseries de Beauvais,"

Les Arts (August 1902), p. 16, illus.; Jules

Badin, La Manufacture de tapisseries de

Beauvais depuis ses origines jusqu a nos

jours (Paris, 1909), p. 61, illus.; George L.

Hunter, "Beauvais-Boucher's Tapestries,"

Arts and Decoration (March 1919), p. 246;

George L. Hunter, The Practical Book of

Tapestries (Philadelphia, 1925), p. 173;

George L. Hunter, "Americas Beauvais-

Boucher Tapestries," Lnternational Studio

(November 1926), pp. 26-28, illus.; Hein­

rich Gφbel, Wandteppiche (Leipzig, 1923),

vol. 2, part ι, p. 227; Erik Zahle, "Fra^ois

Boucher's dobbelte billedavaening," Det

Danske Kunstindustrimuseum: Virksomhed

3 (1959-1964), p. 68; Madeleine Jarry, "A

Wealth of Boucher Tapestries in American

Museums," Antiques (August 1972), p. 224,

fig. 2; Edith Standen, "The Loves of the

Gods," European Post-Medieval Tapestries

and Hangings in the Metropolitan Museum

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