Les Amusements Champêtres

The Pastoral Amusements, known in French as "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

Beauvais tapestry

The Beauvais tapestry manufacture was the second in importance, after the Gobelins tapestry, of French tapestry workshops that were established under the general direction of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the finance minister of Louis XIV...

 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

Jean-Baptiste Huet

Jean-Baptiste Marie Huet was a French painter, engraver and designer associated with pastoral and genre scenes of animals in the Rococo manner, influenced by François Boucher....

the elder (d. 1811).

There are eight designs in the original series

1. Le cheval fondu
2. Colin-maillard
3. La Bergère
4. Le pied de Boeuf
5. Le joueur d'Osselets
6. La Balançoire
7. Le joueur de broches
8. Le joueur de musette