L’Oiseleur

Tapestry, 400 x 290 in.

Detailed information

Royal Manufacture of Aubusson
Carton after Fançois Boucher

At the heart of a countryside, near a charming village on the water, a man helped by two women is trying to catch birds. Children play happily around them. Their modest but charming isolated house in the beautiful vegetation evokes a poetic scene. The eighteenth century appreciated this lightweight and rural subject.

Material: Wool and silk
Date: Circa 1770
Type: Tapestry