# The Bird Catcher, from The Noble Pastoral

- By: François Boucher (Woven at the Manufacture Royale de Beauvais under the direction of André Charlemagne Charron (director, 1754–80) and…)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of Flora Whitney Miller, Barbara Whitney Henry, and Major Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney in memory of their mother, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/44415)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/aec3b0bd-2778-dbf0-bc46-3e78b0a00122/full/843,/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)