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1.- "The Vintage". Flanders middle of the 15th century.
This tapestry is one of the finest ever brought to America; it presents the great rarity of being a profane subject. It was made around 1450, at least thirty years earlier than the famous La Rochefoucauld tapestries bought last year by Mr. Rockefeller.

The costumes and the drawings indicate that the piece was made in Burgundy at the time of Philip-the-Good. In fact it is so close to the work of one of the most prolific of the illustrators who worked for Philip-the-Good that it is safe to assume that the original drawing for the cartoons was his work. In the vivacity of the episode as well as in the numerous details, it follows closely the characteristics of Boysot Lyedet who was working for the Duke of Burgundy and died in 1468.

This tapestry seems to be from the same hand as the one called the "Bal des Sauvages" in the Nantilly Church, by Saumur.

This tapestry comes from the collection Aynard, Paris, and was exhibited in the Red Cross Exhibition in 1913 and reproduced in Les Arts 1913, Gazette des Beaux-Arts 1913, book of Bchmidt of Tapestries, etc..

2.- Tapestry of the Manufacture of Deauvsis of the time of Louis XV, after cartoons by François Boucher of the series called "Les Amours des Dieux" signed "ACC" (André Charlem gne Charron). 

At the time of Louis XV, Doucher was painter of the Court, and was asked to make cartoons for the Royal Manufacture of Beauvsis. It shows as subject "Les Amours des Dieux", and several sets were made after these cartoons. They were then and are still to_day the most appreci ted by the connoisseurs as regards composition, quality, coloring. Never anything so perfect has been achieved as these sets, which were made for the royal family.

The tapestry I brought over presents "The Rape of Proserpine". Its