Lot Essay
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A BRUSSELS BAROQUE PASTORAL TAPESTRY
FIRST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, BY URBAIN LEYNIERS (1703-1747), AFTER DAVID TENIERS II
From the Story of Don Quixote and centrally woven with the armed Sancho Pancha appearing before a a feast, with a rustic house and a villagescape in the distance, within ribbon and acanthus borders, woven with scallop shells at the angles, the lower left selvedge woven with the weavers' inscription V LEYNIERS (areas of reweaving, lacking guard borders)-10ft. 3in. x 11ft. 7in. (3m. 7cm. x 3m. 47cm.)
FIRST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, BY URBAIN LEYNIERS (1703-1747), AFTER DAVID TENIERS II
From the Story of Don Quixote and centrally woven with the armed Sancho Pancha appearing before a a feast, with a rustic house and a villagescape in the distance, within ribbon and acanthus borders, woven with scallop shells at the angles, the lower left selvedge woven with the weavers' inscription V LEYNIERS (areas of reweaving, lacking guard borders)-10ft. 3in. x 11ft. 7in. (3m. 7cm. x 3m. 47cm.)
Provenance
Mrs. E.W. Haines, Cleveland Ohio
Literature
H. Göbel, Tapestries of the Lowlands, New York, 1924, fig. 290 (NI)
Exhibited
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 1918, no. 85