About This Artwork

After a cartoon by François Boucher (1703–1770), 1748
Woven at the Manufacture Royale de Beauvais under the direction of André Charlemagne Charron (director, 1754–80) and de Menou (director, 1780–93)
France, Beauvais

The Bird Catcher, from The Noble Pastoral, 1778–80

Wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave
572.2 x 369.7 cm (225 1/4 x 145 5/8 in.)
Gift of Flora Whitney Miller, Barbara Whitney Henry, and Major Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney in memory of their mother, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 1942.144