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The Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 21 (1986)

THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART JOURNAL | VOLUME 21

"The Fragments d'Opéra: A Series of Beauvais Tapestries After Boucher"

Standen, Edith A.

1986

15 pages

This title is out of print.

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Edith Appleton Standen

Met Art in Publication

Vertumnus and Pomona from a set of Scenes from Operas, François Boucher French, Wool, silk (21-22 warps per inch, 8 per cm.), French, Beauvais — Vertumnus and Pomona from a set of Scenes from Operas
Multiple artists/makers
1758–76

Allegories of Air (Cephalus and Aurora) and Earth (Vertumnus and Pomona), Jacques Germain Soufflot French, Wool, silk (22-24 warps per inch, 9-10 per cm), French, Paris — Allegories of Air (Cephalus and Aurora) and Earth (Vertumnus and Pomona)
Multiple artists/makers
designed 1758–67, woven 1764–71

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