Source claire (clear spring)
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Bonjour workshop.
With signed label, n°3/4.
1973.
It was in 1953 that Jean Picart le Doux proposed to Chaye to become his assistant and encouraged him to design tapestry cartoons : he would produce numerous bucolic cartoons, but also views of Normandy (Mont Saint Michel, Honfleur, regattas,…) whence he came.
A classic cartoon in the naturalistic vein of this particular artist, who made a speciality of enclosures, hedges and riverbanks with animals.
Bibliography :
Simon Chaye tapisseries contemporaines, Editions Librairie des musées, 2014, ill. p.41
