- Four Hangings from the Tentures de
Boucher Series
Gobelins manufactory, circa 1775-1776
Central scenes after paintings by Fran$ois
Boucher; alentours after designs by Maurice
Jacques and Louis Tessier; woven under the
direction of Jacques Neilson
Wool and silk
Diana and Callisto, Vertumnus and Pomona:
Signature neilson. ιx. woven at lower right,
and F.Boucher in the medallion of Vertum
nus and Pomona.
Height: 12 ft. 7 in. (383.5 cm); Width:
20 ft. 6 in. (624.8 cm)
Accession number 71.DD.466
Venus on the Waters-.
Signature neilson. ιx. woven at lower right.
Height: 12 ft. 7 in. (383.5 cm); Width:
10 ft. 5 in. (317.5 cm)
Accession number 71.DD.467
Venus and Vulcan:
Signature neilson, ιx. woven at lower right.
Height: 12 ft. 6 in. (381 cm); Width: 16 ft.
(487.7 cm)
Accession number 71.DD.468
Aurora and Cephalus:
Signature neilson, ιx. woven at lower right.
Height: 12 ft. 6 in. (381 cm); Width:
10 ft. 7 in. (322.5 cm)
Accession number 71.DD.469
PROVENANCE
Given by Louis XVI in 1782 to the Grand
Duke Paul Petrovitch (later Czar Paul I) and
Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna of
Russia; hung at the Palace of Pavlovsk (near
St. Petersburg) until circa 1925 (sold by the
Soviet government); [Duveen Brothers,
New York]; Norton Simon (sold, Parke-
Bernet, New York, May 8,1971, lot 233);
purchased at that sale by J. Paul Getty.
EXHIBITIONS
Pennsylvania, The Allentown Art Museum,
Great Periods of Tapestry, February 19 61.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna,
"Descriptions of the Grand Palace of
Pavlovsk, 1795," Les Tresors dart en Russie
(St. Petersburg, 1907), vol. 3,1903, illus.;
Maurice Fenaille, Etat general des tapisseries
de la Manufacture des Gobelins (Paris, 1904),
vol. 4, pp. 285-287, illus.; George Leyland
Hunter, The Practical Book of Tapestries
(Philadelphia, 1925), p. 190; Phyllis
Ackerman, Tapestry: the Mirror of
Civilization (New York, 1933), p. 277, pi. 45;
Edith Standen, "The Tapestry Room from
Croσme Court," Decorative Art from the
Samuel H. Kress Collection at the Metropoli
tan Museum of Art (London, 1964), p. 52;
Madeleine Jarry, "A Wealth of Boucher
Tapestries in American Museums," Antiques
(August 1972), pp. 222-231; Wilson, Selec
tions, no. 38, pp. 76-77, illus.; Edith
Standen, "Croσme Court Tapestries,"
European Post-Medieval Tapestries and
Hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
(New York, 1985), vol. 1, p. 397.
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