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Lot Essay
This scene depicts a golden legend that is taken from the apocryphal New Testament. Joachim and his wife Anne remained childless after twenty years of marriage. One feast day the priest did not allow Joachim into the temple of Jerusalem to make his offerings because he had no child. Joachim became confused and was ashamed to go home, so he went and stayed with his shepherds where Gabriel appeared to him. The angel told him that Anne would give birth to the mother of Jesus and as a sign he was to meet his wife at the Golden Gate of Jerusalem. Gabriel also appeared to Anne and told her to meet Joachim at the same gate. When they met they embraced joyfully.
The probably false weaver's mark on this tapestry is that of Willem de Pannemaker (d. 1581), who supplied the most important and famous tapestries of the 16th Century to various courts including those of Charles V, Mary of Hungary and Philip II and to the high nobility including the Cardinal Granvelle, the duke of Alba and the count of Egmont (G. Delmarcel, Flemish Tapestry, Tielt, 1999, p. 368).
The probably false weaver's mark on this tapestry is that of Willem de Pannemaker (d. 1581), who supplied the most important and famous tapestries of the 16th Century to various courts including those of Charles V, Mary of Hungary and Philip II and to the high nobility including the Cardinal Granvelle, the duke of Alba and the count of Egmont (G. Delmarcel, Flemish Tapestry, Tielt, 1999, p. 368).