BRUSSELS, CIRCA 1718-45, BY URBAN AND DANIEL LEYNIERS, AFTER DESIGNS BY JAN VAN ORLEY AND AUREL AUGUSTIN COPPENS

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A FLEMISH MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY
BRUSSELS, CIRCA 1718-45, BY URBAN AND DANIEL LEYNIERS, AFTER DESIGNS BY JAN VAN ORLEY AND AUREL AUGUSTIN COPPENS
Woven in silks and wools, depicting The Triumph of Vulcan from The Triumphs of Gods series, showing Venus and Cupid in Vulcan's forge, with Venus's chariot beyond, within later beige and brown guard borders, with weaver's signature 'V.L.R' and Brussels town-mark
10 ft. 10 in. x 6 ft. 7 in. (330 cm. x 201 cm.)

Provenance

Christie's, London, 1 October 1998, lot 229.

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Lot Essay

The editio princeps of this series of thirteen subjects, today at the Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Ghent, was delivered in 1717. The designs varied somewhat over the forty years of production. Jan van Orley (d. 1735) designed a number of tapestry series in the early 18th Century, but in this instance did not design the backgrounds, which were drawn by Aurel Augustin Coppens (d. 1740) (D. Heinz, Europäische Tapisseriekunst des 17. Und 18. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, 1995, pp. 218-219 and p. 232).

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