The Pastoral Amusements
The Pastoral Amusements, (French: Les Amusements champêtres) is a series of tapestries designed between 1720 and 1730[1] by Jean-Baptiste Oudry for Noël-Antoine de Mérou, then director of the Royal Beauvais Tapestry Manufactory. The first production of the designs took place at Beauvais in 1731.[2] After enjoying huge success the series was later adapted and further developed at Aubusson by Jean-Baptiste Huet the elder (d. 1811).
There are eight designs in the original series
- Le cheval fondu
- Colin-maillard
- La Bergère
- Le pied de Boeuf
- Le joueur d'Osselets
- La Balançoire
- Le joueur de broches
- Le joueur de musette
References
- J. Badin, Tapisseries de Beauvais, Paris, 1909
- D. Chevalier, Tapisseries d'Aubusson et de Felletin, Paris, 1988
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Tapestry
- Adoration of the Magi
- Apocalypse Tapestry
- Amnesty-Sís-Pinton Tapestries
- Armada tapestries
- Bayeux Tapestry
- Bayeux Tapestry tituli
- Hunts of Maximilian
- Christ in Glory in the Tetramorph
- Cloth of St Gereon
- The Death of Polydorus
- Devonshire Hunting Tapestries
- Game of Thrones Tapestry
- Great Tapestry of Scotland
- Great Tapestry of Scotland: People's Panel
- Grödinge tapestry
- Gunthertuch
- Hestia Tapestry
- The History of Constantine
- Holy Grail tapestries
- Hunt of the Unicorn
- Hunting of Birds with a Hawk and a Bow
- Jagiellonian tapestries
- The Justice of Trajan and Herkinbald
- Lady and the Unicorn
- New World Tapestry
- Oseberg tapestry fragments
- Överhogdal tapestries
- Pastoral Amusements
- Pastrana Tapestries
- Raphael Cartoons
- Ros Tapestry Project
- Ryijy
- Sampul tapestry
- Scottish Diaspora Tapestry
- Scottish royal tapestry collection
- Sheldon tapestries
- Skog tapestry
- Story of Abraham
- The Triumph of Fame
- Valois Tapestries
- Walsall Silver Thread Tapestries
- The World Trade Center Tapestry
- Kalaga
- Kesi
- Millefleur
and designers
- Pieter Coecke van Aelst
- François Boucher
- Marc Chagall
- Francis Cleyn
- John Coburn
- Michiel Coxie
- Éva Farkas
- Petronėlė Gerlikienė
- Francisco Goya
- Blind Man's Bluff
- The Parasol
- list of tapestry cartoons
- Muriel Nezhnie Helfman
- Else Marie Jakobsen
- Jacob Jordaens
- Hans Knieper
- Nancy Kozikowski
- Jean Lurçat
- Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer
- Bernard van Orley
- François Quesnel
- Raffaello Sanzio (Raphael)