299
- Tapestry, Psyche at Cupid's PaUce
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
Height: 10 ft. 11 in. (322.7 cm); Width:
18 ft. 734 in. (568.4 cm)
Accession number 63 .DD.5
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; Madeleine Jarry,
"A Wealth of Boucher Tapestries in Ameri
can Museums," Antiques (August 1972),
pp. 222-231.
- Four Tapestries from The Story of
Don Quixote Series
Gobelins manufactory,, 1772-1773
Central narrative panels designed by Charles-
Antoine Coypel and the alentours designed
by Jean-Baptiste Belin [Belain or Blin] de
Fontenay, Claude Audran III, Francois
Desportes, and Valade; woven in the work
shop of Michel Audran
Wool and silk
DON QUIXOTTE GUERI DE SA FOLIE,
PARLA SAGES [sic]:
Signature AUDRAN woven at bottom right
corner and with the date 7773 in the galon.
Height: 12 ft. 2 in. (371 cm); Width:
12 ft. 10 in. (391 cm)
Accession number 82 .DD. 66
LE REPAS DE SANCHO, DANS VILE DE
BARATARIA [sic]:
Signature AUDRAN and date 7772 woven
in the galon and the border at the bottom
right corner; also woven with the manufac
tory mark G in the galon.
Height: 12 ft. 2 in. (371 cm); Width:
16 ft. 5 lA in. (502 cm)
Accession number 82 .DD. 67
ENTREE DE SANCHO DANS VILE DE
BARATARIA [sic]:
Signature AUDRAN woven at the bottom
right corner and with the date 1772 in
the galon.
Height: 12 ft. 2 in. (371 cm); Width:
13 ft. 9 34 in. (421 cm)
Accession number 82 .DD.68
POLTRONERIE DE SANCHO A LA
CHASSE [sic]:
Signature AUDRAN woven in the bottom
right corner and with the date 1772 in
the galon.
Height: 12 ft. 2 in. (371 cm); Width:
13 ft. 6 in. (411 cm)
Accession number 82 .DD.69
PROVENANCE
Given by Louis XVI on August 20,1786,
to Albert and Marie-Christine (sister of
Marie Antoinette), Duke and Duchess
of Saxe-Teschen, Joint Governors of the
Austrian Netherlands; Karl Ludwig Johann
Joseph Lorenz, Duke of Teschen, 1822;
Albrecht Friedrich Rudolf, Duke of Teschen,
1847; Friedrick Maria Albrecht Wilhelm
Karl, Duke of Teschen, Schloss Haltburn,
Burgenland, Austria, 1895, removed to
London, 1936; Alice Bucher, Lucerne,
Switzerland (offered for sale, Sotheby's,
London, December 8,1967, lot 1, bought
in); [Galerie Rφmer, Zurich, 1981] (sold,
Sotheby's, Monaco, June 14,1982, lot 571).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Maurice Fenaille, Etat general des tapisseries
de la Manufacture des Gobelins (Paris, 1904),
vol. 3, pp. 237fr.; Heinrich Gφbel, Wand
teppiche (Leipzig, 1923), vol. 2, part 1, p. 163;
Bremer-David, "Acquisitions 1982," no. 13,
pp. 60-66, illus.; Wilson, Selections, no. 36,
pp. 72-73, illus.; Edith Standen, "The
Memorable Judgment of Sancho," European
Post-Medieval Tapestries and Hangings in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York,
1985), vol. ι, pp. 369-375; Handbook 1986,
p. 172, illus. (82.DD.66 only); Jonathan
Bourne and Vanessa Brett, Lighting in the
Domestic Interior: Renaissance to Art
Nouveau (London, 1991), illus. p. 114,
fig. 369; Handbook1991, p. 191, illus.
(82.DD.68 only).
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