Tapestry, Hotel Lallemant, Bourges, France
Tapestry of children gardening, wool, Flemish or French, late 17th - early 18th century, copied from an original series made at the Manufacture des Gobelins in 1664, in the Hotel Lallemant, a mansion built 1495-1518 in French Renaissance style by the Lallemant merchant family, in Bourges, Centre Val de Loire, France. The subject of children gardening came from Charles le Brun's decoration of the Pavillon de l'Aurore at the Chateau de Sceaux. Taken by the Nazis during WWII, these tapestries were in the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in Krefeld 1940-48, were returned to France after Liberation and given to the Bourges museum in 1960. Since 1951 the building has housed the Musee des Arts Decoratifs and it was listed as a historic monument in 1840. Picture by Manuel Cohen
