Caption

Tapestry armchair seat cover, Wool tapestry with figurative motifs: dogs, birds including a raven, trees, draperies below, and surrounding flowers. Colors: beige, light brown, pink, blue, and green. Post–mid-18th century, possibly Aubusson or Beauvais origin. Materials: fabrics; height 57.5 cm, width 67 cm., A woven tapestry panel with a central rectangular scene set against a dusty rose background, featuring muted beige, cream, green, brown, pink, blue, and gold tones; the central scene shows a pastoral landscape with grassy greens and soft beige sky, a few flowering vines and leaves framing the top and sides in pale pinks, greens, and golds, and a group of animals in the foreground including a reclining greyhound-like dog in grey and white, a seated brown-and-white dog, and a sheep in cream and light brown; a stylized tree with olive green and brown foliage appears to the right with a perched bird in dark brown, and floral swags and a gathered drapery border in cream, pink, blue, and gold decorate the lower edge.

Credit line

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Reference

LZT26A12_180

License type

Rights managed

Available size

28.5Mb (2.7Mb) / 10.9in x 10.1in / 3284 x 3036 (300dpi)

Keywords

Tapestry armchair seat cover Wool tapestry figurative motifs dogs birds raven trees draperies surrounding flowers Colors beige light brown pink blue green Post–mid-18th century Aubusson Beauvais origin Materials fabrics height 57.5 cm width 67 cm woven tapestry panel central rectangular scene set dusty rose background featuring muted cream brown gold tones central scene pastoral landscape grassy greens soft sky flowering vines leaves framing top sides pale pinks greens golds group animals foreground reclining greyhound- dog grey white seated brown- -white dog sheep stylized tree olive green brown foliage right perched bird dark brown floral swags gathered drapery border gold decorate lower edge.