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| French Tapestry |
2.42m
h x 2.80m w
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19th century
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A French tapestry depicting in a bucolic atmosphere the first stage in wine making (gathering the grapes before extracting the juice). The workers, or peasants, bring basketful of white grapes and tumble their contents into a big vat, constructed of oak like a wide open barrel. The whole scene is depicted onto the background of a river behind which the village houses scale a wooded hill. The landscape is probably inspired by burgundy, rather than other wine-making regions in France.
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