Lot 210
210
A LILLE BAROQUE PASTORAL TAPESTRY

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A LILLE BAROQUE PASTORAL TAPESTRY
FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY, ATELIER OF GUILLAUME WERNIERS, AFTER DAVID TENIERS II

Woven with shepherds resting with their flock before a woman milking a cow within a landscape, the borders woven with urns of flowers, scrolling acanthus and masks, areas of reweaving, losses, replacements
8ft. 3½in. x 8ft. 11in. (2m. 53cm. x 2m. 72cm.)

Lot Essay

Guillaume Werniers, recorded as working in Lille 1698-1738

A slightly wider version of this tapestry woven by Guillaume Werniers is illustrated in N. Forti Grazzini, Gli Arazzi, Rome, 1994, p. 362.