FRENCH DECORATIVE DRAWINGS I79
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- Tapestry, Neptune andAmymone
from the Tentures de Boucher Series
Gobelins manufactory, circa 1781-1783
Central scene after a painting by Fran9ois
Boucher; alentour after designs by Maurice
Jacques and Louis Tessier; woven under the
direction of Jacques Neilson
Wool and silk
F.Boucher. Pix woven in central oval panel
and neilson ιx. woven in the lower right of
the alentour.
Height: 12 ft. % in. (368 cm); Width:
15 ft. 6 in. (472.5 cm)
Accession number 73.DD.90
PROVENANCE
One of four tapestries given by Louis XVI in
1784 to Prince Henry of Prussia; Jules Porgιs
(sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 18,
1924, no. 244); (sold, Galerie Charpentier,
Paris, May 28, 1954, no. 145); private collec
tion, France, 1957; conte Francesco Castel-
barco Albani, Italy (sold, Sotheby's, Palazzo
Capponi, Florence, May 22,1973, lot 79);
purchased at that sale by J. Paul Getty.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Maurice Fenaille, Etat general des tapisseries.
de la Manufacture des Gobelins (Paris, 1904),
vol. 4, pp. 285-289, illus.; Hermann Schmitz,
Bildteppiche, Geschichte der Gobelinwirkerei
(Berlin, 1919), p. 304; Stephane Faniel et al.,
French Art of the Eighteenth Century (Collec
tion Connaissance des arts, New York, 1957),
vol. i, p. 161, fig. c; Edith Standen, "The
Tapestry Room from Croσme Court," Deco
rative Art from the Samuel H. Kress
Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art (London, 1964), p. 52; Edith Standen,
"Croσme Court Tapestries," European Post-
Medieval Tapestries and Hangings in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York,
1985), vol. ι, p. 397.
Decorative Drawings
- Drawing for a Wall Light
(See entry no. 169)
Paris, circa 1760-1780
Attributed to Contant d'lvry
Pen and black ink on paper
Inscribed (recto) in ink in the lower right
(S) Girandolle de dessus h chem[inιe] [...?]/
de Jeu dans VElevation No. 6.... Inscribed
(verso) in pencil Bachelier and, in ink, below
F. A. Maglin 1902. Inscribed in pencil on
separate rectangles glued to the reverse Ir and
Thre Van Thulden. Unidentified watermark.
Height: 10%; in. (26.5 cm); Width: 63 4 in.
(17.ι cm)
Accession number 86.GA.692
PROVENANCE
F. A. Maglin, 1902; [Fran9ois-Gerard Selig-
mann, Paris].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Acquisitions/1986," GettyMusJi*) (1987), no.
105, p. 213, illus.
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