Chantelune
Tapestry woven in Aubusson by the Atelier Tabard.
With its bolduc Signed by the artist, no. EA II.
Circa 1970.
Having become a painter-cartoonist late in life, Henri Ilhe nonetheless designed, starting in 1964, a quite considerable woven work (more than 120 cartoons, all woven at Tabard) in a kindly style, made of birds or butterflies frolicking among shrubs with knotted branches.
“Chantelune” is, in this respect, characteristic of Ilhe’s bucolic inspiration.
