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The Hunters and Girls with Grapes

Decorative arts

The Hunters and Girls with Grapes

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Type: Decorative arts(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1738-1754
Accession number: 20.8
Makers: Beauvais Tapestry Manufactory(Opens in new tab) (French, 1664–1664); Nicolas Besnier(Opens in new tab); or under the directorship of André Charlemagne Charron(Opens in new tab) (French, 1757–1780); Under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Oudry(Opens in new tab) (French, 1686–1755)
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designed by François Boucher(Opens in new tab) (French, 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. It shows two scenes combined: on the left side are two girls, one offering grapes to the other. On the right side are two hunters with their horses and dogs, and the spoils of their hunt.

Credit

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. The Arabella D. Huntington Memorial Art Collection.

Department

European Art

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Label text

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.

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