Decorative arts

The Fishermaid

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Type: Decorative arts(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1738-1754
Accession number: 20.6
Makers: Beauvais Tapestry Manufactory(Opens in new tab) (French, 1664–1664); André Charlemagne Charron(Opens in new tab) (French, 1757–1780); Jean-Baptiste Oudry(Opens in new tab) (French, 1686–1755)
After: Nicolas Besnier(Opens in new tab) (French)
Designer: François Boucher(Opens in new tab) (1703–1770)
Dimensions: 105 x 73 1/2 in. (266.7 x 186.7 cm.)
Medium: wool and silk; modern linen support straps, dust bands, and linings.
Description: This tapestry is part of a set of five tapestries portraying Italian village scenes. In "The Fishermaid," two young women and a man seated among Classical ruins are fishing.
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. The Arabella D. Huntington Memorial Art Collection.
Department: European Art
Find out more: View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)

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Boucher was already well established as a painter, engraver, and theatrical designer when he turned his talents to tapestry in the 1730s. This suite of five tapestries was inspired by his travels in rural Italy. Boucher designed six suites of tapestries for the Beauvais Manufactory over two decades. The Italian Village Scenes was his first suite; an example of his last suite, The Noble Pastorale, hangs downstairs in the Large Library.

The Fishermaid

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