A BRUSSELS TENIERS TAPESTRY

MID-18TH CENTURY, BY DANIEL III LEYNIERS, AFTER DAVID TENIERS THE YOUNGER

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A BRUSSELS TENIERS TAPESTRY
Mid-18th Century, by Daniel III Leyniers, after David Teniers the younger
Woven in wools and silks, depicting The Fish Quay with various peasants, fish stalls and fishermen working against a seaport background to the left with four vessels and an architectural arcaded building to the right signed to the lower right angle 'D. LEYNIERS' and with an inventory label to the back numbered '3693', within a later blue outer slip, conceived without border
10 ft. 1 in. x 16 ft. 9 in. (306 cm. x 513 cm.)

Provenance

Purchased by Consul General Karl Bergsten (d. 1953) from Bernheimer, Munich, in 1917.

Literature

K. Asplund ed., Collection de Peintures et de Sculptures appartenant M. le Consul Gnral et Madame Carl Bergsten, Stockholm, 1943, cat. 66.
H. Gbel, Tapestries of the Lowlands, New York, 1924, fig. 299.
H.C. Marillier, Handbook to the Teniers Tapestries, London, 1932, p. 28.

Lot Essay

A further tapestry of this design is in the 'Gobelin-Salon' at Schnbrunn, Vienna (H. Boekhoff et al., Palste, Schlsser, Residenzen, Madrid, 1971, p. 211), another is illustrated in D. Boccara, Les Belles Heures de la Tapisserie, Zug, 1971, pp. 167 and 169, while another of the same design by Jacques van der Borcht is illustrated in H.C. Marillier, Handbook to the Teniers Tapestries, London, 1932, plate 14.

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