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A BEAUVAIS MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY
LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY
From the Story of Ulysees and depicting the Madness of Ulysees, with the seated heor surrounded by attendants and the Greek warrior Palamedes breaking forth to snatch the infant Telemachus, a child before battling soldiers, all within a forestscape with classical ruins and a classical village in the distance (reduced in size, areas of reweaving, lacking borders)-9ft. 9in. x 11ft. 2in. (2m. 92.5cm. x 3m. 35cm.)
LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY
From the Story of Ulysees and depicting the Madness of Ulysees, with the seated heor surrounded by attendants and the Greek warrior Palamedes breaking forth to snatch the infant Telemachus, a child before battling soldiers, all within a forestscape with classical ruins and a classical village in the distance (reduced in size, areas of reweaving, lacking borders)-9ft. 9in. x 11ft. 2in. (2m. 92.5cm. x 3m. 35cm.)
Provenance
Parke-Bernet, New York, 1944, lot