434339 Tapestry showing the Toilet of Psyche, woven by the Beauvais tapestry manufactory, December 1741-February 1744 (wool & silk) by Boucher, Francois (1703-70); 298x551 cm; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, PA, USA; (add.info.: La Toilette de Psych矇. From a set of five tapestries called "The Story of Psyche". This tapestry is part of the first complete set of tapestries telling ???he Story of Psyche??woven by the Beauvais tapestry manufactory. Its elegant and sensuous style is a superb example of the fashionable compositions designed for the factory by Francois Boucher from the mid-1730s to the 1740s. The tapestries illustrate scenes from the myth of Psyche and derive from seventeenth-century adaptations of the literary work of the Roman poet Lucius Apuleius (A.D. 125-180). The Story of Psyche was Boucher??? second commission for the Beauvais factory, and the designs, which went on the looms in 1741, continued to be woven until 1770. ); 穢 Philadelphia Museum of Art ; Bequest of Eleanore Elkins Rice, 1939; French, out of copyright.