According to the records of the Beauvais manufactory, this tapestry was woven between September 1740 and May 1741. The design is based on a painting by Francois Boucher now in the Palais de Justice in Rouen, France, and it is the only version of the tapestry made from this pattern. Doris Duke bought the tapestry in New York in 1965 from the estate auction of Eleanor Elkins Widener Rice, whose Newport residence, Miramar, was just a few houses up Bellevue Avenue from Rough Point.
Beauvais tapestry with the arms of France and Navarre
