AFTER JACQUES-NICOLAS JULLIARD: A LOUIS XV AUBUSSON PASTORAL TAPESTRY CIRCA 1760-1770 woven with a youthful shepherd and two shepherdesses resting in the shade of a tree in a river landscae, within an arcadian landscape, flanked by a border of entwined flowers and foliage,  240cm high x 290cm wide Provenance: Purchased by the current vendor from the Vigo-Sternberg Collection of European Tapestries, Sotheby's, London, 29 February 1996. A further version of this tapestry was sold at Sotheby's, London, 20 January 1967, lot 51.  Literature: Chevallier - 'Tapisseries d'Aubusson et de Felletin, p148.  Jacques-Nicolas Julliard was a pupil of the Rococo painted Francois Boucher, and was appointed 'peintre cartonnier' for the workshops of Aubusson and Felletin in 1755.