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Boy with Bagpipe

Designer Figure designed by François Boucher French
Workshop of Jacques Neilson French
ca. 1750–88
Not on view

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Boy with Bagpipe
  • Designer: Figure designed by François Boucher (French, Paris 1703–1770 Paris)
  • Manufactory: Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins (French, established 1662)
  • Maker: Workshop of Jacques Neilson (French, 1714–1788)
  • Date: ca. 1750–88
  • Culture: French, Paris
  • Medium: Silk, wool (22-25 warps per inch, 9-10 per cm.)
  • Dimensions: 32 × 25 in. (81.3 × 63.5 cm)
  • Classification: Textiles-Tapestries
  • Credit Line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958
  • Object Number: 58.75.38
  • Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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