Tapestry "L'Opérateur ou la Curiosité" from the Hanging Fêtes Italiennes, also known as Fêtes de village à l'italienne, by François Boucher (1703-1770), Beauvais manufactory under the direction of Nicolas Besnier (1734-1753), bears the inscription at the bottom of the weave Boucher 1737. The appendix of Italian Festivals includes other subjects: La Bohème, The Hunters, The Fisherman, The Girls with the Grapes, The Dance, The Snack, The Music, The Gardener, The Shepherdess, The Cabaret Singer, The Parrot, The Merchant of Eggs. A tapestry with the same subject is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Gift of Ann Payne Robertson 64.145.1. This has a card with the inscription Pourtalès. Bibliography: - J. Badin, La manufacture de tapisseries de Beauvais, 1909, p. 31-41. - Edith Standen & Regina Shoolman Slatkin, Metropolitan Journal, vol. 12/1977, p. 107. - Edith Standen, European Post Medieval tapestries and related hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1985, vol.II, p. 510, 78 a.

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