Settee designed ca. 1786, woven 1790-91; settee frame second half 19th century Tapestry upholstery by Beauvais Tapestry-woven upholstery for two settees and twelve armchairs was commissioned at the same time as the wall hangings depicting the Four Continents (1978.404.1-.4).¹ The Four Continents was one of two suites-each including four wall tapestries and coordinating seating furniture-that were ordered from Beauvais in 1786; the subject of the other suite was to be a series illustrating the arts, sciences, agriculture, and commerce. An earlier suite of tapestry furniture covers depicting the continents was produced at the Royal Manufactory of Gobelins in 1748, and the arrangement of the motifs in Le Barbiers covers is similar: personifications of the continents are set against a landscape on the seat backs, and native animals populate the seat covers.²This subject in tapestry aligns with the contemporary popularity of the Four Continents in eighteenth-century European art: everythin

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Settee designed ca. 1786, woven 1790-91; settee frame second half 19th century Tapestry upholstery by Beauvais Tapestry-woven upholstery for two settees and twelve armchairs was commissioned at the same time as the wall hangings depicting the Four Continents (1978.404.1-.4).¹ The Four Continents was one of two suites-each including four wall tapestries and coordinating seating furniture-that were ordered from Beauvais in 1786; the subject of the other suite was to be a series illustrating the arts, sciences, agriculture, and commerce. An earlier suite of tapestry furniture covers depicting the continents was produced at the Royal Manufactory of Gobelins in 1748, and the arrangement of the motifs in Le Barbiers covers is similar: personifications of the continents are set against a landscape on the seat backs, and native animals populate the seat covers.²This subject in tapestry aligns with the contemporary popularity of the Four Continents in eighteenth-century European art: everythin

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