A BRUSSELS HISTORICAL TAPESTRY FRAGMENT

LATE 16TH CENTURY

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A BRUSSELS HISTORICAL TAPESTRY FRAGMENT
Late 16th Century
Woven in wools and silks, depicting a battle scene with Roman soldiers holding swords and banners attacking towards the right, with sun-rays to the sky, within a later brown and blue outer slip, minor reweaving and patching
78¼ in. x 45 in. (199 cm. x 114 cm.)

Lot Essay

This fragment relates to the work of Pieter Coecke van Aelst (d. 1550), such as in the tapestry depicting the Battle at Merom and the Death of Jabin, King of Hazor in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (R. Bauer, Tapisserien der Renaissance, Exhibition Catalogue, Eisenstadt, 1981, p. 4).

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