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Tester bed (lit à la duchesse en impériale)   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Beauvais Tapestry Manufactory    wikidata:Q2566130
 
Beauvais Tapestry Manufactory
Alternative names
Beauvais tapestry; Beauvais Tapestry Manufacture; Beauvais Tapestry Works; Royal Manufactory Beauvais
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q2566130
Jean-Baptiste Huet  (1745–1811)  wikidata:Q2221472
 
Jean-Baptiste Huet
Alternative names
Jean-Baptiste Marie Huet; Jean-Baptiste Huet I; Jean Baptiste Houet; Jean-Baptiste-Marie, I Huet; Jean-Baptiste, I Huet; Jean Baptiste Huette; Jean Baptiste Huet; J.-B. Huet; Jean Baptiste De Houet; Jean-Baptiste Marie Huet, the Elder; Jean-Baptiste Huët; Huet, Jean-Baptiste
Description French painter, textile designer and drawer
Date of birth/death 15 October 1745 Edit this at Wikidata 27 August 1811 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Edit this at Wikidata Paris Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1769 Edit this at Wikidata–1811 Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q2221472
Georges Jacob  (1739–1814)  wikidata:Q503567
 
Georges Jacob
Alternative names
Georges I Jacob; Jacob Georges
Description French furniture maker
Date of birth/death 6 July 1739 Edit this at Wikidata 5 July 1814 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Cheny Edit this at Wikidata Paris Edit this at Wikidata
Work period
Français : Maître en 1765
Work location
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q503567
Title
Tester bed (lit à la duchesse en impériale)
Description
French, Paris; Bed; Woodwork-Furniture
Date circa 1782
date QS:P571,+1782-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
–83
Medium Carved, painted and gilded walnut, pine, and linden; iron hardware; silk and wool Beauvais tapestry; modern silk damask
Dimensions

Overall (bed components installed): H. 156 3/4 x W. 73 1/2 x D. 86 3/4 in. (398.1 x 186.7 x 220.3 cm); Headboard: H. 79 1/2 x W. 73 1/2 in. (201.9 x 186.7 cm); Tester at rectangular frame: W. 78 x D. 90 1/2 in. (198.1 x 229.9 cm); Greatest dims. of tester including protruding crestings: H. 17 x W. 96 x D. 99 1/2 in. (43.2 x 243.8 x 252.7 cm); H. of canopy from floor: 156-3/4 in. (398.1cm)

Matteress support: 80 x 64 x 3 1/2 in.
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Current location
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Accession number
23.235a
Credit line Gift of Kingdon Gould, in memory of his mother, Edith Kingdon Gould, 1923
Source/Photographer

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/231893

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Tester bed (lit à la duchesse en impériale) by Georges Jacob, tapestry made at Beauvais, after a design by Jean-Baptiste Huet I, detail of passementerie (MET, 23.235a)

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