BADIN, Jules (1909). La Manufacture de tapisseries de Beauvais depuis ses origines jusqu’à nos jours. Avertissement par Jules Guiffrey. Paris, Société de Propagation du Livre d’art.
Title page of Badin’s “La Manufacture de Tapisseries de Beauvais depuis ses origines jusqu’à nos jours”.
List of Plates
Jules Jean Badin (1843-1919), artist and Director of the National Manufactory of Beauvais.
Jules Guiffrey (1840-1918) French administrator and art historian, major contribution to studies in the history of tapestry. (See biography at Oxford Art Online subscription needed).
Well illustrated throughout in black and white with 30 illustrations, examples from many sets produced at Beauvais shown.
Chapters include:
The Manufacture of Beauvais Tapestries
Philippe Behagle (1684-1711)
Les Frères Filleul (1711-1722)
De Merou (1722-1734)
Nicolas Bernier & Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1734-1753)
André-Charlemagne Charron (1753-1780)
De Menou (1780-1793)
Camousse (1794-1800)
Etat des Tapisseries exécutées de 1728 à 1793
113 pp + (8)nn pp + 30 full page photo plates