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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
- Medium
- Wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave
- Classification
- Textile
- Dimensions
- 572.2 × 369.7 cm (225 1/4 × 145 5/8 in.)
- Culture
- Beauvais
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Gift of Flora Whitney Miller, Barbara Whitney Henry, and Major Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney in memory of their mother, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
