A FLEMISH HISTORICAL TAPESTRY

LATE 17TH EARLY 18TH CENTURY

细节

A FLEMISH HISTORICAL TAPESTRY
Late 17th early 18th Century
Woven in wools and silks, depicting Alexander Wounded in the Battle against the Malli from The History of Alexander, with Alexander wounded with an arrow in his leg, fallen off his horse and supported by a soldier, before a burning fortified town being stormed by his soldiers, within a florally swagged border with putti and a nymph to the right side and cartouches to the top and bottom, and within a later brown outer slip to the bottom and the sides and the later green outer slip to the top, reduced in width and lacking left hand border, with painted panels replacing the original fabric in some sections, areas heightened with paint, reweaving and patching and reduced in height to the bottom
9 ft. 8 in. x 7 ft. 6½ in. (295 cm. x 230 cm.), excluding the outer slip

来源

Probably commissioned for Schloss Schlobitten, East Prussia.
Thence by descent.

出版

C. Grommelt and C. von Merten, Das Dohnasche Schloss Schlobitten in Ostpreussen, Stuttgart, 1962, pp. 264-265.
D. Heinz, Europäische Tapisseriekunst des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, 1995, p. 161.

拍品专文

This scene possibly depicts Alexander when he was severely wounded storming one town of the Malli near the Hydraotes (Ravi) River in India.