Beauvais
Beauvais is associated with the Rococo taste for lively genre subjects, and the single tapestry in this archive — The Dance from a set of the Italian Village Scenes — is woven in wool and silk at a fine sett of 21 to 23 warps per inch. The design dates to 1744, placing the piece within the decorative arts of the mid-eighteenth century, where pastoral and village festivities were a favoured theme for wall hangings. This collection holds just this one example of the workshop's output, so the technical and thematic range of Beauvais can only be glimpsed here rather than surveyed.
1 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)
