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 Gipsy Fortune-Teller, with a group of peasants standing to the centre, with an elderly person holding a cane flanked by a little boy with a further seated woman with two young boys within an extensive pastoral landscape with a river and a tower on a bridge to the left, and with trees to the right-hand side and foliate sprays to the foreground, signed to the lower-right angle 'D. L.' and with inventory label numbered '3694' to the back, the top previously folded over by 4 in. (10 cm.), conceived without borders
9 ft. 9 in. x 6 ft. 4 in. (297 cm. x 193 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. 68.
H.C. Marillier, Handbook to the Teniers Tapestries, London, 1932, p. 30.

Lot Essay

A tapestry of identical subject, but with borders, is illustrated in H.C. Marillier, Handbook to the Teniers Tapestries, London, 1932, plate 23, while another by Urban Leyniers is illustrated in D. Boccara, Les Belles Heures de la Tapisserie, Zug, 1971, p. 163.

A tapestry of this subject attributed to Jodocus de Vos was sold from the Vigo Sternberg collection, Sotheby's London, 29 February 1996, lot 66.

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