page_title: The Pastoral Amusements
hierarchical_section_title: The Pastoral Amusements
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755), French painter and engraver
context_page_description: The Pastoral Amusements, is a series of tapestries designed between 1720 and 1730 by Jean-Baptiste Oudry for Noël-Antoine de Mérou, then director of the Royal Beauvais Tapestry Manufactory.
  The first production of the designs took place at Beauvais in 1731.
  After enjoying huge success the series was later adapted and further developed at Aubusson by Jean-Baptiste Huet the elder.
context_section_description: The Pastoral Amusements, (French: Les Amusements champêtres) is a series of tapestries designed between 1720 and 1730 by Jean-Baptiste Oudry for Noël-Antoine de Mérou, then director of the Royal Beauvais Tapestry Manufactory.
  The first production of the designs took place at Beauvais in 1731.
  After enjoying huge success the series was later adapted and further developed at Aubusson by Jean-Baptiste Huet the elder (d. 1811).
caption: Jean-Baptiste Oudry, etching made by his wife, Marie-Marguerite Froissé, after a painting by Nicolas de Largillière.
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