AFTER JAN VAN ORLEY AND AUGUSTIN COPPENS, BRUSSELS, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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A FLEMISH MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY
AFTER JAN VAN ORLEY AND AUGUSTIN COPPENS, BRUSSELS, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Woven in silks and wools, depicting 'Calypso's supper' from 'The story of Telemachus' with Calypso and Telemachus courtly dressed figures at a table in a wooded landscape with musicians to the left and attending maidens to the right, Telemachus' shipwrecked barge in the background, within a scrolling foliate simulated picture frame border, with Brussels town mark and weaver's signature 'AVWERCX'
11 ft. 3 in. x 17 ft. 10 in. (344 x 544 cm.)

Exhibited

Probably J. Boccara, Ames de Laine et de Soie, Saint-Justen-Chaussée, 1988, p. 91.

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Lot Essay

This series is believed to be the first supplied by Jodocus de Vos in collaboration with the Auwercx tapestry workshops before 1710. Interestingly, this series was based on a preliminary and incomplete version of the Les Aventures de Télémaque by the theologian, François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon. This incomplete version of Les Aventures was banned by the French court and only re-issued in full in 1717. Between 1724 and 1736, van Orley and Coppens designed a second tapestry series of this subject woven by the Leyniers tapestry workshops (D. Heinz, Europäische Tapisseriekunst des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts and G. Delmarcel, Flemish Tapestry, Tielt, 1999, pp. 316 - 317).

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