The Bird Catcher, from The Noble Pastoral

François Boucher (Woven at the Manufacture Royale de Beauvais under the direction of André Charlemagne Charron (director, 1754–80) and…)

Designed, 1748; commissioned by June 1778; woven between June 27, 1778 and Sept. 17, 1780 · Wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave

Art Institute of Chicago · Gift of Flora Whitney Miller, Barbara Whitney Henry, and Major Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney in memory of their mother, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

Public domain (CC0)

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