id: 122568 accession number: 1942.822 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.822 updated: 2024-09-14 11:06:54.616000 The Flute Player from Set Les Beaux Pastorales, 1775. Beauvais (French), François Boucher (French, 1703–1770). Tapestry weave: silk and wool; overall: 363.1 x 375.7 cm (142 15/16 x 147 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John L. Severance 1942.822 title: The Flute Player from Set Les Beaux Pastorales title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1775 creation date earliest: 1775 creation date latest: 1775 current location: creditline: Bequest of John L. Severance copyright: --- culture: France, 18th century technique: tapestry weave: silk and wool department: Textiles collection: Textiles type: Tapestry find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Beauvais (French) - woven at * François Boucher (French, 1703–1770) - designed by French Rococo artist who epitomizes the frivolous and elegant court life of France in the mid-18th century. During his early career he was closely associated with Watteau, many of whose paintings he engraved. Boucher was a successful and incredibly prolific artistic who had a major impact on both fine and decorative art of the 18th century. He is particularly noted for having reinvented the genre of the pastoral, creating images of shepherds and shepherdesses as sentimental lovers that was taken up in a variety of medium. Boucher's sketchy manner of painting helped to promote painterliness as an end in itself. This trend dominated French painting until the emergence of Neoclassicism, when the tides of criticism turned against Boucher and his followers. --- measurements: Overall: 363.1 x 375.7 cm (142 15/16 x 147 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed in reverse in lower left hand corner: "F. Boucher 1775"; on lower right hand selvage fleur-de-lys and "A.C.C. Beauvais." translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection opening date: 1942-11-12T04:00:00 Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 12, 1942-March 14, 1943). title: Three Centuries of Beauvais Tapestries opening date: 1964-06-19T04:00:00 Three Centuries of Beauvais Tapestries. Hôtel de Beauvais, Paris, France (June 19-September 30, 1964). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Trois siecles de tapisseries de Beauvais: 1664-1964. Hotel de Ville, Beauvais, France (June 19-September 30, 1964).', 'opening_date': '1964-06-19T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Count Boni de Castellane; J. Pierpont Morgan; John L. Severance, Cleveland. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Gertrude Townsend. "A Pastoral by Franc̦ois Boucher." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts 38, no. 230 (1940): 82-86. page number: p. 83 url: www.jstor.org/stable/4170777 Catalogue of the John L. Severance Collection: Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942. page number: Reproduced: p. [54-55], Plate XXVI, cat. no. 121; Mention: p. 60, cat. no. 121 url: https://archive.org/details/SeveranceBequest/page/n64 Milliken, William M., Gertrude Underhill, and Jean Mailey. "Department of Decorative Arts." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 29, no. 9 (1942): 137-51. page number: p. 148-49 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25141017 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 313 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n62 Hôtel de Ville (Beauvais, France). Trois siècles de tapisseries de Beauvais: exposition organisée a l'occasion du tricentenaire de la fondation de la manufacture royale de tapisseries : Hôtel de Ville, Beauvais, 19 juin-30 septembre 1964. [Beauvais]: [publisher not identified], 1964. page number: no. 29 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 135 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n159 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 135 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n159 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 178 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n198 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.822/1942.822_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.822/1942.822_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.822/1942.822_full.tif