id: 123540 accession number: 1944.134 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.134 updated: 2023-03-20 14:14:07.120000 Chinese Fair, 1723–74. Beauvais (French), Jean Joseph Dumons (French, 1687–1779), after a design by François Boucher (French, 1703–1770). Tapestry weave: silk and wool; overall: 308 x 293.1 cm (121 1/4 x 115 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection 1944.134 title: Chinese Fair title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1723–74 creation date earliest: 1723 creation date latest: 1774 current location: creditline: The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection copyright: --- culture: France, 18th century, Period of Louis XV (1723-1774) technique: tapestry weave: silk and wool department: Textiles collection: Textiles type: Tapestry find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Beauvais (French) - manufacturer * Jean Joseph Dumons (French, 1687–1779) - designed by * François Boucher (French, 1703–1770) - artist 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: 308 x 293.1 cm (121 1/4 x 115 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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). title: Juxtapositions opening date: 1965-09-11T04:00:00 Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965). title: The Porcelain Connection opening date: 1982-06-22T04:00:00 The Porcelain Connection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-August 15, 1982). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Loan Exhibition of Tapestries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 5-December 1, 1918). * Trois siecles de tapisseries de Beauvais: 1664-1964. Hotel de Ville, Beauvais, France (June 19-September 30, 1964). --- PROVENANCE Mrs. Francis F. [Elisabeth Severance Allen] Prentiss [1865-1944], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: at least 1918-1944 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1944- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS P.W. French & Co. Royal Beauvais Tapestry, The Chinese Fair ... Presented by Louis XV to the Emperor Kien-Lung. New York: French, n.d. page number: url: Hunter, George Leland. Loan Exhibition of Tapestries: Cleveland Museum of Art, October 5th to December 1st Inclusive, 1918. [Cleveland]: [The Museum], 1918. page number: p. 24, no. 43 url: Hunter, George Leland. Beauvais-Boucher Tapestries. 1919. page number: p. 29, illus p. 244 url: Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss collection : bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1944. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944. page number: Mentioned: p. 66; Reproduced: Plate XXIX url: https://archive.org/details/Prentiss/page/n65 Underhill, Gertrude. "Tapestries." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 31, no. 6 (1944): 102-93. page number: p. 102-103 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25141134. “The Chinese Fair.” Bulletin - The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. XXXV (May 1946) page number: p. 89 url: Bernard-Maitre, Henri. “Les Tapisseries Chinoises De François Boucher À Pékin.” Bulletin De La Société De L'histoire De L'art Français / Société De L'histoire De L'art Français 1951. page number: p. 9-10 url: 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. 318 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n62 Milliken, William Mathewson. The Cleveland Museum of Art Collections. [Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], 1960. page number: Mentioned: p. 114 url: https://archive.org/details/Milliken/page/n243/mode/2up 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. 24 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 Jarry, Madeleine. “Wealth of Boucher Tapestries in American Museums.” Magazine Antiques 102 (August 1972). page number: p. 222-31 url: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=asu&AN=513430209&site=ehost-live 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 Jarry, Madeleine. China und Europa: Der Einfluss Chinas auf die Angewandten Künste Europas. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1981. page number: p. 28 url: Jarry, Madeleine. The Wealth of Boucher Tapestries in American Museums. New York: "Antiques, " 1972. page number: p. 28 (illus) url: Bertrand, Pascal-François. 1990. "La seconde "Tenture Chinoise" tissée à Beauvais et Aubusson: relations entre Oudry, Boucher et Dumons". Gazette Des Beaux-Arts / Fondée Par Charles Blanc. 6: 173-184. page number: p. 173-184 url: Turner, Evan H. Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: p. 95 url: Rado, Mei Mei. 2017. “Qing Imperial Encounters with European Tapestries : The ‘Tenture Chinoise’ and Beyond.” In Arachné / Textes Rassemblés Et Édités Par Pascal-François Bertrand Et Audrey Nassieu Maupas Seite page number: p. 119-135 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.134/1944.134_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.134/1944.134_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.134/1944.134_full.tif