An Aubusson Pastoral tapestry

French, circa 1740.

8ft 8in  x  4ft 11in    :   262cm  x  151cm

Made with wool and silk threads.

Aubusson tapestries are known for their elegance and delicate coloring, often depicting romantic pastoral scenes derived, here with a design in the manner of Francoise Boucher whose scenes of couples courting in garden landscapes, were fashionable at the court of Louis XV and they were the perfect expression of elegance and refinement of French taste at the height of the Rococo period.

The colouring is lighter than previous periods and typically Rococo, to reflect the lighthearted subject matter of a young maiden and a man engaged in blissful and frivolous conversation.