Psyche Displaying Her Treasures to Her Sisters, 1744/1746

  • Beauvais Manufactory, French
  • François Boucher, French, 1703-1770

Wool and silk

  • 143 1/2 x 159 3/4 in. (364.5 x 405.8 cm)

Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband

71.180

On rise of platform, lower center: F. BOVCHE

One of a set of five tapestries commissioned by Luigi Riggio Saladino Branciforti-Colonna, †ambassadeur extraordinaire du Roi d'Espagne† to the court of Versailles 1741-1746, in October 1744 and delivered in July 1746

Reggio e Branciforte family, Naples

Ernest Cronier, Paris

His sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 4-5 Dec 1905, lot 164

George Jay Gould (d.1923), Lakewood, NJ

Duveen Brothers (dealer), New York

Anna Thomson Dodge, Grosse Pointe, MI, 1932 to 1971

P. Seidel, Französisches Kunstwerke des 18.Jahrhunderts, Berlin and Leipzig, 1900, pp 190-1. A. Alexander, "La Collection E. Cronier", LES ARTS, Paris, no. 47, November 1905, pp. 22, 26-27 Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, "Catalogue des tableaux...composant la collection de M. E. Cronier," sales cat., 4-5 Dec 1905, lot 164 H. Macfall, BOUCHER: THE MAN, HIS TIMES, HIS ART, AND HIS SIGNIFICANCE, London, 1908, p.136 Badin, J., LA MANUFACTURE DE TAPISSERIES DE BEAUVAIS DEPUIS SES ORIGINES JUSQU'A NOS JOURS, Paris, 1909, pp. 33, 60 Göbel, H., WANDTEPPICHE, PART II: DIE ROMANISCHEN LÄNDER, 2 vols, Leipzig, 1928, vol. 1, p. 226 Spretti, V., ENCICLOPEDIA STORICO-NALIDIARE ITALIANA, V, Milan, 1932(1933?), p. 643 Detroit, A CATALOGUE OF WORKS OF ART IN THE COLLECTION OF ANNA THOMSON DODGE, Detroit, 1933, unpaginated Weigert, R.-A., "La manufactue royale de tapisseries de Beauvais en 1754," BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE DE L'HISTOIRE DE L'ART FRANÇAIS, 1933, pp. 230, 232 Detroit, A CATALOGUE OF WORKS OF ART OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY IN THE COLLECTION OF ANNA THOMSON DODGE, 2 vols, Detroit, 1939, vol 1, unpaginated. "The Rice Bequest," BULLETIN OF THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART, vol. 35, Nov 1939, unpaginated. F. Salet, LA TAPISSERIE FRANÇAISE DU MOYEN-AGE A NOS JOURS (Paris 1946), pl. 29 "Recent Acquisitions of American and Canadian Museums," THE ART QUARTERLY 34 (Winter 1971), pp. 500, 504 B. von Malmbourg, ed., SLOTTEN, Malmö, 1971, p. 80, ill. opp. p. 80 R. Winkour, "The Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Collection," Bulletin of the DIA 50, no. 3 (1971), pp. 48-9, repro p. 48 (article pp 43-51) "La chronique des arts," Gazette des Beaux Arts 79 (Jan 1972), supplement p. 96, fig. 338 Ananoff, A., and Wildenstein, D., FRANÇOIS BOUCHER, 2 vols, Lausanne, 1976, vol. 1, p. 20, no. 160, p. 149, pp. 311-12, no.193, figs. 606-9 K. Hiesinger, "The Sources of Francois Boucher's Psyche Tapestries", BULLETIN OF THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART 72 (Nov 1976), pp. 7-23 N. Forti Grazzini, Il Patrimonio Artistico del Quirinale: Gli Arrazi (Rome & Milan 1993), vol. 2, p. 393; p. 492 T. Dell et al., The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-Century French and English Art in the Detroit Institute of Arts (New York & Detroit 1996), no. 37, pp. 144-7, p. 145 (ill), det repro pp 144, 146 (entry by H.H. Hawley) Detroit, DIA, Woven Splendor: Five Centuries of European Tapestry at the Detroit Institute of Arts, July-Sept 1996, cat. no. 16, pp. 15, 62, color repro p. 63, color det. p. 14, fig. 5 (entry by T. Albainy) C. Bremer-David, French Tapestries & Textiles in the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles 1997), cat. no. 11, p. 115 , figure 11.7 (comparative image) Additional info: Hunter, George Leland, THE PRACTICAL BOOK OF TAPESTRIES, New York, 1925, pp. 168-170

François Boucher; Beauvais Manufactory, Psyche Displaying Her Treasures to Her Sisters, 1744/1746, Wool and silk. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.180.