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Cupid in a Medallion
Louis XVI presented this hanging and its pair, along with matching upholstery for seat furniture, to Prince Henry of Prussia (traveling incognito as the comte d’Oels) in 1784. Henry subsequently displayed the tapestries in the bedroom of his Berlin palace. Other notable recipients of tapestries from the same series (with designs based on the paintings of François Boucher) included Paul and Maria Feodorovna of Russia and Emperor Joseph II.