A BEAUVAIS PASTORAL TAPESTRY DEPICTING 'LA KERMESSE'

LATE 17TH CENTURY, WORKSHOP OF PHILIP BEHAGLE, AFTER DESIGNS BY DAVID TENIERS

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A BEAUVAIS PASTORAL TAPESTRY DEPICTING 'LA KERMESSE'
LATE 17TH CENTURY, WORKSHOP OF PHILIP BEHAGLE, AFTER DESIGNS BY DAVID TENIERS
Depicting a village scene with figures dancing below a fidler and a bagpiper, and others conversing within a landscape, the borders with fruit and flower garlands and acanthus clasps, within later guard borders
9ft. 10in. x 16ft. (2m. 28cm. x 4m. 87cm.)

Lot Essay

According to H. Marillier, in Handbook to the Teniers Tapestries, London, 1932, pp. 95-96, Philip Béhagle was an Oudenarde weaver who migrated to Tournai, and then to Beauvais where he was the director of the royal tapestry workshop from 1684-1704.

Marillier illustrates four of five Beauvais tapestries with subjects after Teniers from the Bernheimer collection, which are signed by Béhagle in the lower left hand corners (plts. 65-66), and a virtually identical tapestry (possibly the present lot) from the Dr. R. N. de Peltzer of Narva collection (plt. 63).