''The Pastoral Amusements'', (french: Les Amusements champêtres) is a series of tapestries designed between 1720 and 1730 by

Jean-Baptiste Oudry Jean-Baptiste Oudry (; 17 March 1686 – 30 April 1755) was a French Rococo painter, engraver, and tapestry designer. He is particularly well known for his naturalistic pictures of animals and his hunt pieces depicting game. His son, Jacques- ...

for Noël-Antoine de Mérou, then director of the Royal

Beauvais Tapestry The Beauvais Manufactory () is a historic tapestry factory in Beauvais, France. It was the second in importance, after the Gobelins Manufactory, of French tapestry workshops that were established under the general direction of Jean-Baptiste Colb ...

Manufactory. The first production of the designs took place at Beauvais in 1731.H. N. Opperman, Observations on the Tapestry Designs by J. B. Oudry, Beauvais Memorial Art Museum Bulletin, 1968-9 After enjoying huge success the series was later adapted and further developed at Aubusson by

Jean-Baptiste Huet Jean-Baptiste Marie Huet (Paris, 15 October 1745 – Paris, 27 January 1811) was a French painter, engraver and designer associated with pastoral and genre scenes of animals in the Rococo manner, influenced by François Boucher. Born into ...

the elder (d. 1811).

There are eight designs in the original series

# Le cheval fondu # Colin-maillard # La Bergère # Le pied de Boeuf # Le joueur d'Osselets # La Balançoire # Le joueur de broches # Le joueur de musette

References

*J. Badin, Tapisseries de Beauvais, Paris, 1909 *D. Chevalier, Tapisseries d'Aubusson et de Felletin, Paris, 1988 {{DEFAULTSORT:Pastoral Amusements Tapestries French art Rococo art 1720s works