BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jules Badin, La Manufacture de tapisseries de
Beauvais depuis ses origines jusquδ nos jours
(Paris, 1909), p. 60; Duveen and Co., A
Catalogue of Works of Art of the Eighteenth
Century in the Collection of Anna Thomson
Dodge (Detroit, 1933), introduction pp. iii-iv
and non-paginated entry, illus.- Tapestry, The Abandonment of Psyche
Beauvais manufactory, circa 1750
Woven after a painting by Fran$ois Boucher,
under the administration of Nicolas Besnier
and the direction of Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Wool and silk
Signature f Boucher woven at lower left.
Height: 11 ft. iiVz in. (364.5 cm); Width:
9 ft. 2 in. (280 cm)
Accession number 63 .DD.3
PROVENANCE
Sir Anthony de Rothschild, London; Ε. M.
Hodgkins, Paris; [French and Co., New
York]; purchased by J. Paul Getty, 1937.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jules Badin, La Manufacture de tapisseries
de Beauvais depuis ses origines jusquδ nos
jours (Paris, 1909), p. 60; George L. Hunter,
The Practical Book of Tapestries (Philadel
phia, 1925), pp. 169, 249; Madeleine Jarry,
"A Wealth of Boucher Tapestries in Ameri
can Museums," Antiques (August 1972),
pp. 222-231.298- Tapestry, Psyche at the Basketmakers
Beauvais manufactory, circa 1750
Woven after a painting by Fran$ois Boucher,
under the administration of Nicolas Besnier
and the direction of Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Wool and silk
Signature f Boucher woven at lower left and
the arms of France and Navarre at the top,
center.
Height: 11 ft. 4 in. (345.5 cm); Width:
8 ft. 3 in. (251.5 cm)
Accession number 63 .DD.4
PROVENANCE
Edward Cecil Guinness, ist Earl of Iveagh
(1847-1927), London; Walter Guinness,
London; [Jacques Seligmann, Paris, by
1931 (inv. no. 1346)]; purchased by J. Paul
Getty, 1938.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jules Badin, La Manufacture de tapisseries de
Beauvais depuis ses origines jusquδ nos jours
(Paris, 1909), p. 60; George L. Hunter, The
Practical Book of Tapestries (Philadelphia,
1925), p. 144; Madeleine Jarry, "A Wealth of
Boucher Tapestries in American Museums,"
Antiques (August 1972), pp. 222-231; Geral-
dine C. Hussman, "Boucher's Psyche at the
Basketmakers: A Closer Look," Getty Mus] 4
(1977), ΡΡ· 45"50.
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