EARLY 18TH CENTURY, LONDON, POSSIBLY BY JOHN CHABANEX

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AN ENGLISH ALLEGORICAL TAPESTRY
Early 18th century, London, possibly by John Chabanex
The foreground woven with faggot-gatherers and a bearded man and his female companion warming against a fire with skaters on the frozen lake beyond, in an elaborate and extensive landscape with rustic buildings, a windmill and birds hovering above, in a beed-and-reel outer slip, lacking further border
approx. 101 x 125 in. (256 x 358 cm.)

Provenance

Bought from Vigo-Sternberg Galleries, 30 July 1973.

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Lot Essay

This tapestry is related to a pair of panels depicting Spring and Autumn in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (E. Standen, European Post-Medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985, vol. II, cat. 126, pp. 712-716). Standen attributes these panels to John Chabanex, who was a Huguenot refugee recorded in England from 1696-1744, because a panel of these designs in the Dundas Historical Society Museum, Dundas, Canada, is signed 'I. Chabanex F.'. The designs are probably adapted from Flemish prototypes.
A Spring and a Winter panel were sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 7 July 1966, lot 159.

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