- Tapestry, The Toilet of Psyche
Beauvais manufactory, circa 1741-1753
Woven after a painting by Fran£ois Boucher,
under the administration of Nicolas Besnier
and the direction of Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Wool and silk
Signature BESNIER & OVDRY - A
BEAWAISwoven at lower right.
Height: 11 ft. (335 cm); Width: 8 ft. 9 in.
(267 cm)
Accession number 63 .DD.2
PROVENANCE
Sir Anthony de Rothschild, London; Henry
Walters, Baltimore (sold by his widow,
Parke-Bernet, New York, April 26,1941,
lot 739, to [French and Co., New York]);
purchased by J. Paul Getty.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Madeleine Jarry, "A Wealth of Boucher
Tapestries in American Museums," Antiques
(August 1972), pp. 222-231.,,
- Tapestry, The Toilet of Psyche
Beauvais manufactory, circa 1741-1770
Woven after a painting by Fra^ois Boucher,
under the administration of Nicolas Besnier
and the direction of Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Wool and silk
Signature BESNIER-ET- OVDRY'A
BEAUVAIS woven in lower right galon.
Height: 9 ft. 4 in. (284.5 cm); Width:
13 ft. 5 in. (409 cm)
Accession number 68 .DD.23
PROVENANCE
Rupert Edward Cecil Lee Guinness, 2nd
Earl of Iveagh (1874-1967), Pyrford Court,
Surrey (sold, Christie's, Pyrford Court,
June 4,1968, lot 206); purchased at that sale
by J. Paul Getty.
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- Tapestry, The Toilet of Psyche
Beauvais manufactory, circa 1749
Woven after a painting by Fran9ois Boucher,
under the administration of Nicolas Besnier
and the direction of Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Wool and silk
Height: 10 ft. (305 cm); Width: 15 ft. 6 in.
(472.5 cm)
Accession number 71.DD.470
PROVENANCE
Due de Gramont, Paris (sold, Galerie
Georges Petit, Paris, May 22, 1925, lot 73);
[Duveen Brothers, London, 1933]; Anna
Thompson Dodge, Rose Terrace, Grosse
Pointe Farms, Michigan (sold, Christie's,
London, June 24,1971, lot 137); purchased
at that sale by J. Paul Getty.
EXHIBITIONS
London, 25 Park Lane, Three French Reigns,
February-April 1933, no. 528, pi. 88; San
Marino, California, The Henry E. Hunting
ton Library and Art Gallery, January-
July, 1989.
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