Let us help you pick your jaw off the ground. Found in Montpellier and originally from a chateau in Burgundy, this 18th-century tapestry shows a hunting party resting in a clearing, the gentlemen in their breeches and waistcoats, the women in their gowns, the dogs and the day's catch off to the side. It was woven on an Aubusson loom in the style that decorated French country chateaux through the 1700s, in the soft greens, dusty pinks, and faded golds that only vegetable dyes turn into over three hundred years. The leafy floral border with its scrolling acanthus is original to the piece, and the wool has thinned in places where the light hit it hardest, the way every old tapestry eventually softens. A piece like this hung in a cold stone hall to keep the warmth in and tell the family's story to anyone who came to dinner. Sylvie hangs it on a long wall above a low sofa with nothing else competing for the eye.
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