Blind Mans Buff
Aubusson
Category
Textiles
Date
1901
Materials
Tapestry
Measurements
1760 x 1990 mm
Order this imageCollection
Berrington Hall, Herefordshire
NT 618153.2
Summary
One of a set of four Aubusson-Felletin tapestry panels after Lancret. Approx 70:30 wool: silk. 20 ends per inch. Unusually the warp hangs vertically. The tapestry is stretched over a padded frame, lined with a heavy weight cotton fabric, the edges turned and nailed to the frame on the back. It hangs from two chains fixed to the top edge. Based on a painting by Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743). The scene depicts a pastoral landscape with two couples engaged in a game of Blind Man’s Buff.
Provenance
The fixed frames within which the tapestries sit were designed to hold paintings. The paintings were sold by the 7th Lord Rodney in the late 19th century. In 1901 the 1st Lord Cawley commissioned tapestries to replace thee paintings from the Ambusson-Felletin factory based on the paintings by the French artists Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743). Amongst the chattels collected by 1st Lord Cawley for Berrington Hall. Purchased by the National Trust from Sir Frederick Lee Cawley, 3rd Baron Cawley in 1998.
Makers and roles
Aubusson, maker Felletin, maker