Visual Materials
View shows Louis XV furniture arranged on a large area carpet and a Beauvais tapestry, "The Bird Catchers." The writing desk and filing cabinet (bureau plat et cartonnier), attributed to Etienne Doirat, are from 1720 to 1732. The settee and chairs belong to the set of two settees and ten chairs whose upholstery covers were woven at Gobelins Manufactory, Paris, probably under the supervision of Jacques Neilson (1714-1788), after design by François Boucher (1703-1770) and Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1733-1755). The covers were woven circa 1779, and the frames are nineteenth century. The screen on the right is a six-panel folding screen (paravent) made at the Savonnerie Manufactory, Chaillot workshop, Paris, after designs by Alexandre-François Desportes (1661-1743), made between 1719 and 1784; the frame is of a later date. Label accompanying photograph in album reads "HEH 15 West end, Library room in Huntington Art Gallery. Louis XV and Louis XVI furniture. Beauvais tapestry, "The Bird Catchers," designed by Boucher." Appeared in Westways, March 1938. Appeared in San Marino Tribune, April 22, 1937.
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