Colombine preferring Pierrot to Scapin - Vigne d'après Boucher d'après Watteau

The tapestry Colombine préférant Pierrot à Scapin is part of the Comédie italienne series and was made around 1745 in Charles Vigne's Berlin manufacture. The tapestry's three characters and their arrangement are inspired by the engraving La Coquete (with a single T) by François Boucher in 1727 after a drawing by Antoine Watteau. The figure of Cassandre, Colombine's father leaning on a cane, which appears in the original engraving, is absent from the tapestry, and the clothes of the three characters taken up are less differentiated. What's more, in the woven version, the backdrop is the grounds of a château: the characters are no longer in the middle of a landscape.

The character on the left is not Matamore, who is always depicted with a large rapier, but Scapin, as attested by Boucher's engraving.