Description
Tapestry illustrating a pastoral scene "children playing with a goat" and to their right a deer and another animal, on a green background. Manufacture royale d'Aubusson, circa 1720, beginning of the XVIIIth century. Wool and silk, very healthy, some weaknesses in the silks, browns restored. H: 2,54-W: 3,76 m This scene is inspired by the Children's Games hanging after Michel Corneille (1602-1664) whose drawings were used by the Parisian workshops, i.e. before the creation of the Gobelins. The Aubusson workshops were encouraged to weave the different subjects of this hanging which was a resounding success and was woven by the Beauvais, Mortlake and Gobelins workshops. The Petit Palais museum in Paris preserves comparable tapestries such as the Saute-mouton or the Danse woven in Aubusson around 1720 by the Vallenet and Maingonnat workshops.
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Tapestry illustrating a pastoral scene "children playing with a goat" and to their right a deer and another animal, on a green background. Manufacture royale d'Aubusson, circa 1720, beginning of the XVIIIth century. Wool and silk, very healthy, some weaknesses in the silks, browns restored. H: 2,54-W: 3,76 m This scene is inspired by the Children's Games hanging after Michel Corneille (1602-1664) whose drawings were used by the Parisian workshops, i.e. before the creation of the Gobelins. The Aubusson workshops were encouraged to weave the different subjects of this hanging which was a resounding success and was woven by the Beauvais, Mortlake and Gobelins workshops. The Petit Palais museum in Paris preserves comparable tapestries such as the Saute-mouton or the Danse woven in Aubusson around 1720 by the Vallenet and Maingonnat workshops.
