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Tapestry: The Luncheon (from the series LA NOBLE PASTORALE or LES BEAUX PASTORALES)
Designed by: François Boucher (French, 1703–1770)
French
1756
Object Place: Beauvais, France
Medium/Technique
Tapestry weave (wool warp; wool and silk wefts)
Dimensions
348 x 340.4 cm (137 x 134 in.)
Credit Line
Bartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and 1931 Purchase Fund
Accession Number40.66
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
ProvenanceAbout 1895, Paul Ernest Boniface de Castellane (b. 1867 - d. 1932), New York [see note 1]. J. Pierpont Morgan (b. 1837 - d. 1913), London and New York. March 11, 1922, sold by C. Ledyard Blair (b. 1867 - d. 1949), New York, to French and Company, New York; April 3, 1924, sold by French and Co. to William Randolph Hearst (b. 1863 - d. 1951), San Simeon, CA; November 25, 1939, sold by Hearst back to French and Co. [see note 2]; 1940, sold by French and Co. to the MFA for $55,000. (Accession Date: April 11, 1940)
NOTES:
[1] In How I Discovered America: Confessions of the Marquis Boni de Castellane (New York, 1924), pp. 248-249, Castellane recalls visiting Morgan and seeing "the two famous Boucher tapestries which I had acquired immediately after my marriage, and which I had resold in a moment of financial desperation." [2] Study Collection of Photographs of Tapestries, Photo Archive Database online, Getty Research Institute, no. 310173.
NOTES:
[1] In How I Discovered America: Confessions of the Marquis Boni de Castellane (New York, 1924), pp. 248-249, Castellane recalls visiting Morgan and seeing "the two famous Boucher tapestries which I had acquired immediately after my marriage, and which I had resold in a moment of financial desperation." [2] Study Collection of Photographs of Tapestries, Photo Archive Database online, Getty Research Institute, no. 310173.