Versailles tapestry rolls out to attend France exhibition

This definitely wasn’t your typical removal job.

A tapestry that once hung in the Palace of Versailles was yesterday carefully removed from its moorings in Bantry House and rolled up for its return trip to France, where it will form part of an international exhibition of tapestries until this November.

Le Colin Maillard, or Blind Man’s Buff, has hung in Bantry House in West Cork since it was purchased by Richard White, the Second Earl of Bantry, in the mid 19th century, as he undertook a European tour which took him as far away as Russia.