A Gobelins Mythological Tapestry, after Designs by François Boucher and Maurice Jacques 19th Century

from the series of the Ovid's Metamorphases, representing Aurora and Cephalus (allegories for Air), the goddess of dawn hovering on a cloud watching over the sleeping youth, in the foreground birds on a platform with a star, a wooded park in the background, framed by blossoming flowers growing up on stalks of weed, swags of flowers suspended from an arch topped by an urn.

Sold Sotheby's New York, May 30, 1987, lot 264 

Lined with velcro. Very muted color palette. Dry silks. Splits throughout. Some water staining along bottom. Overall the colors are less pink and more cream in reality.
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The original designs of 1763 by François Boucher were later modified by Maurice Jacques, between 1772 and 1775, for a set of hangings woven in a private atelier of the Royal Gobelins workshops in 1779. For this see, M. Maurice Fenaille, L'Etat des Tapisseries de la Manufacture des Gobelins, Paris, 1923, vol. IV, pp. 301-304.

The present tapestry is woven in reverse to the original design.