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Set of 4 Tapestries Signed by Beauvais Manufacture aft. F.Boucher, France, 1770
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Each panel : Each panel = Height : 206 cm (81,1 in.) ; Width : 56 cm (22 in.) ; Depth : 4 cm (1,5 in.)
Beautiful set of four tapestries representing children’s pastorals, woven by the Beauvais Manufacture on cardboards by F. Boucher, inspired by his serie of paintings delivered around 1751 to the marquise de Pompadour for her Château de Crécy.
Presented in superimposed medallions with flowers and bordered with interlacing, these scenes are :
- A shepardess and a gardener with the initials « F.B » on the base of the tree ;
- a fisherboy and a farmer signed on the stone on the right « Boucher 1780 Beauvais »
- a puppeteer and a spinner sat on a stone bench signed « Boucher » ;
- a musician and a butter maker signed on the bottom left « Boucher 1780 Beauvais »
They are surrounded by arched giltwood frames decorated with leaves.
Related work : Set of four paintings by F. Boucher which decorated the Château de Crécy at the time of the marquise de Pompadour.
It became the property of the duc de Penthièvre in 1757 with all its furniture. The latter resold the castle in 1775 without its collections, which he installed in the Château de Sceaux.
Sold during the Revolution, the paintings were bought in 1862 by the duc de Trévise, and reinstalled in the Château de Sceaux until 1923, date of its sale to the Seine department. Reappeared on the art market during the Rouillac sale of June 10th, 2018, the paintings were preempted by the Château de Sceaux to join their collections (inventory n° 2018.1.1 ; 2018.1.4 ; 2018.1.2 ; 2018.1.3 ; 2018.1.4) and are exposed Salle Penthièvre.
- Creator:François Boucher (Painter),Beauvais Royal Manufactory (Manufacturer)
- Dimensions:Height: 81.11 in (206 cm)Width: 22.05 in (56 cm)Depth: 1.58 in (4 cm)
- Sold As:Set of 2
- Style:Louis XVI (Of the Period)
- Materials and Techniques:
- Place of Origin:
- Period:1770-1779
- Date of Manufacture:1770
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use. Minor fading.
- Seller Location:PARIS, FR
- Reference Number:
François Boucher
The extraordinary career of Francois Boucher was unmatched by his contemporaries in versatility, consistency and output. For many, particularly the writers and collectors who led the revival of interest in the French rococo during the last century, his sensuous beauties and plump cupids represent the French eighteenth century at its most typical. His facility with the brush, even when betraying the occasional superficiality of his art, enabled him to master every aspect of painting – history and mythology, portraiture, landscape, ordinary life and, as part of larger compositions, even still life. He had been trained as an engraver, and the skills of a draftsman, which he imbued in the studio of Jean-Francois Cars (1661 – 1738), stood him in good stead throughout his career; his delightful drawings are one of the most sought-after aspects of his oeuvre. As a student of Francois Lemoyne (1688 - 1737), he mastered the art of composition. The four years he spent in Italy, from 1727-1731, educated him in the works of the masters, classics and history, that his modest upbringing had denied him. On his return to Paris in 1734, he gained full membership of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture with his splendid Rinaldo and Armida (Paris, Musée du Louvre). Although, throughout his career, he occasionally painted subjects taken from the Bible, and would always have considered himself first as a history painter, his own repertoire of heroines, seductresses, flirtatious peasant girls and erotic beauties was better suited to a lighter, more decorative subject matter. His mastery of technique and composition enabled him to move from large scale tapestry cartoons (he worked throughout his career for both the Beauvais and Gobelins tapestry factories, becoming director of the latter in 1755), to intimate masterpieces such as Diana Resting (Paris, Louvre) or Leda and the Swan and the occasional scene from everyday life such as The Luncheon (Paris, Louvre), with its elegantly dressed figures grouped around a well-laid table. Enormously successful and widely bought, Boucher’s output was prodigious. First patronized by the Crown in the 1730s, and appointed Premier Peintre du Roi in 1765, he executed numerous royal and princely commissions until his death in 1770, working particularly for Louis XV’s mistress, the Marquise de Pompadour in each of her several palaces. Always ready to utilize his talents in other fields, he designed stage sets for theatre and opera and supplied drawings to be used as designs for figures at the Vincennes (later Sèvres) porcelain factory. As a teacher, he was much loved by his many students, who included Fragonard, Le Prince, Deshays, Brenet, Baudouin, Lagrenee, and Madame de Pompadour herself. In his earliest surviving works with their colourful rococo palette, even David, a distant cousin, was clearly influenced by Boucher. Not since Le Brun had a single French artist held such a monopoly on the imagery of a particular society or left such a mark on the art of his time.
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