A CHARLES II SILK-EMBROIDERED PICTURE

CIRCA 1680

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A CHARLES II SILK-EMBROIDERED PICTURE
CIRCA 1680
With a central scene of an angel above a pyre with a praying couple, depicting Manoah and the Angel, Samson and the lion, upper right, and Samson and Delilah, upper left, with pond in foreground and castle in background, in a landscape with flowering trees and knolls, within a broad border with birds and beasts such as a peacock, a dragon, a leopard, a stag, a grasshopper and with flowering branches, within a metallic border, later backed on canvas within a later stained and parcel-gilt frame with associated inner gilt border
22¼ in. x 25¾ in. (56.5 x 65.5 cm.) overall

Provenance

An Important Collection of Needlework [The Lady Richmond Collection]; Christie's, South Kensington, 23 June 1987, lot 81
Purchased from Alistair Sampson, London, 22 April 1988

Lot Essay

One of the most successful compilations of engravings in the 17th Century was the twin volume Theasurus Sacrarum Historiarum Veteris Testamenti published by Gerard de Jode in Antwerp in 1585. Most of the prints in these volumes were after paintings by Martin de Vos (1531-1603). A likely source for the central scene is an engraving by Antonious Wierix after a painting of Manoah and the Angel by Martin de Vos, from the Thesaurus Sacrarum (see Y. Hackenbroch, English and other Needlework: Tapestries and Textiles in the Irwin Untermeyer Collection, Cambridge, 1960, p. xxix, fig. 22.).

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