The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 18, 2024
Chinese Fair
1723–74
manufacturer
(French)
designed by
(French, 1687–1779)
after a design by François Boucher
(French, 1703–1770)
Overall: 308 x 293.1 cm (121 1/4 x 115 3/8 in.)
Location: not on view
- at least 1918-1944Mrs. Francis F. [Elisabeth Severance Allen] Prentiss [1865-1944], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art1944-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- P.W. French & Co. Royal Beauvais Tapestry, The Chinese Fair ... Presented by Louis XV to the Emperor Kien-Lung. New York: French, n.d.Hunter, George Leland. Loan Exhibition of Tapestries: Cleveland Museum of Art, October 5th to December 1st Inclusive, 1918. [Cleveland]: [The Museum], 1918. p. 24, no. 43Hunter, George Leland. Beauvais-Boucher Tapestries. 1919. p. 29, illus p. 244Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss collection : bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1944. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944. Mentioned: p. 66; Reproduced: Plate XXIX archive.orgUnderhill, Gertrude. "Tapestries." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 31, no. 6 (1944): 102-93. p. 102-103 25141134.“The Chinese Fair.” Bulletin - The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. XXXV (May 1946) p. 89Bernard-Maitre, Henri. “Les Tapisseries Chinoises De François Boucher À Pékin.” Bulletin De La Société De L'histoire De L'art Français / Société De L'histoire De L'art Français 1951. p. 9-10The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 318 archive.orgMilliken, William Mathewson. The Cleveland Museum of Art Collections. [Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], 1960. Mentioned: p. 114 archive.orgHôtel de Ville (Beauvais, France). 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. [Beauvais]: [publisher not identified], 1964. no. 24The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 135 archive.orgThe Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 135 archive.orgJarry, Madeleine. “Wealth of Boucher Tapestries in American Museums.” Magazine Antiques 102 (August 1972). p. 222-31 search.ebscohost.comThe Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 178 archive.orgJarry, Madeleine. China und Europa: Der Einfluss Chinas auf die Angewandten Künste Europas. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1981. p. 28Jarry, Madeleine. The Wealth of Boucher Tapestries in American Museums. New York: "Antiques, " 1972. p. 28 (illus)Bertrand, Pascal-François. 1990. "La seconde "Tenture Chinoise" tissée à Beauvais et Aubusson: relations entre Oudry, Boucher et Dumons". Gazette Des Beaux-Arts / Fondée Par Charles Blanc. 6: 173-184. p. 173-184Turner, Evan H. Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. p. 95Rado, Mei Mei. 2017. “Qing Imperial Encounters with European Tapestries : The ‘Tenture Chinoise’ and Beyond.” In Arachné / Textes Rassemblés Et Édités Par Pascal-François Bertrand Et Audrey Nassieu Maupas Seite p. 119-135
- The Porcelain Connection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-August 15, 1982).Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965).Three Centuries of Beauvais Tapestries. Hôtel de Beauvais, Paris, France (June 19-September 30, 1964).Trois siecles de tapisseries de Beauvais: 1664-1964. Hotel de Ville, Beauvais, France (June 19-September 30, 1964).Loan Exhibition of Tapestries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 5-December 1, 1918).
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