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123540
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Chinese Fair
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123540
contentType
object
title
Chinese Fair
date
1723–74
rights
CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79900739
creators
11782
25455
1888
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Tapestry
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1
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Overall: 308 x 293.1 cm (121 1/4 x 115 3/8 in.)
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France, 18th century, Period of Louis XV (1723-1774)
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1944.134
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tapestry weave: silk and wool
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Chinese Fair, 1723–74. Beauvais (French), Jean Joseph Dumons (French, 1687–1779), after a design by François Boucher (French, 1703–1770). Tapestry weave: silk and wool; overall: 308 x 293.1 cm (121 1/4 x 115 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection, 1944.134
collection
Textiles
citations
citation
P.W. French & Co. <em>Royal Beauvais Tapestry, The Chinese Fair ... Presented by Louis XV to the Emperor Kien-Lung</em>. New York: French, n.d.
citation
Hunter, George Leland. <em>Loan Exhibition of Tapestries: Cleveland Museum of Art, October 5th to December 1st Inclusive, 1918</em>. [Cleveland]: [The Museum], 1918.
page_number
p. 24, no. 43
citation
Hunter, George Leland. <em>Beauvais-Boucher Tapestries</em>. New York: 1919.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 29; Reproduced: p. 244
citation
<em>Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss collection : bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1944</em>. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 66; Reproduced: Plate XXIX
citation
Underhill, Gertrude. "Tapestries." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 31, no. 6 (June 1944): 102–103, and 93.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 102–103; Reproduced: p. 93
url
www.jstor.org/stable/25141134
citation
“The Chinese Fair.” <em>Bulletin - The Minneapolis Institute of Arts.</em> XXXV (May 1946)
page_number
p. 89
citation
Bernard-Maitre, Henri. “Les Tapisseries Chinoises De François Boucher À Pékin.” <em>Bulletin De La Société De L'histoire De L'art Français / Société De L'histoire De L'art Français</em> (1951) pp. 9–10.
page_number
pp. 9–10
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 318
citation
Milliken, William Mathewson. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Collections</em>. [Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], 1960.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 114
citation
Hôtel de Ville (Beauvais, France). <em>Trois siècles de tapisseries de Beauvais: exposition organisée a l'occasion du tricentenaire de la fondation de la manufacture royale de tapisseries : Hôtel de Ville, Beauvais, 19 juin-30 septembre 1964</em>. [Beauvais]: [publisher not identified], 1964.
page_number
no. 24
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 135
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 135
citation
Jarry, Madeleine. “Wealth of Boucher Tapestries in American Museums.” <em>Magazine Antiques</em> 102 (August 1972).
page_number
pp. 222–231
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 178
citation
Jarry, Madeleine. <em>China und Europa: Der Einfluss Chinas auf die Angewandten Künste Europas</em>. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1981.
page_number
p. 28
citation
Jarry, Madeleine. "The Wealth of Boucher Tapestries in American Museums." <em>Antiques (</em>1972).
page_number
Reproduced: p. 28
citation
Bertrand, Pascal-François. 1990. "La seconde "Tenture Chinoise" tissée à Beauvais et Aubusson: relations entre Oudry, Boucher et Dumons". <em>Gazette Des Beaux-Arts / Fondée Par Charles Blanc</em>. 6: 173–184.
page_number
pp. 173–184
citation
Turner, Evan H. <em>Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
page_number
p. 95
citation
Rado, Mei Mei. “Qing Imperial Encounters with European Tapestries: The ‘Tenture Chinoise’ and Beyond.” In <em>Arachné / Textes Rassemblés Et Édités </em>Pascal-François Bertrand and Audrey Nassieu Maupas, editors. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2017.
page_number
pp. 119–135, footnote 83
creditline
The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection
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