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17TH CENTURY
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A BRUSSELS MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY FRAGMENT
17th Century
Woven in wools and silks, depicting Diane seated flanked by a maiden within a garden landscape with foliage and a quiver on the right hand side, the background with a canopied architectural structure and a stepped waterfall to the left, lacking borders, minor reweaving and patching, supported by a wooden bar
6 ft. 9 in. x 3 ft. 2in. (206 cm. x 96 cm.)
17th Century
Woven in wools and silks, depicting Diane seated flanked by a maiden within a garden landscape with foliage and a quiver on the right hand side, the background with a canopied architectural structure and a stepped waterfall to the left, lacking borders, minor reweaving and patching, supported by a wooden bar
6 ft. 9 in. x 3 ft. 2in. (206 cm. x 96 cm.)
Provenance
Probably commissioned for Schloss Schlobitten, East Prussia.
Thence by descent.
Thence by descent.
Literature
C. Grommelt and C. von Mertens, Das Dohnasche Schloss Schlobitten in Ostpreussen, Stuttgart, 1962, pp. 264-265.
D. Heinz, Europische Tapisseriekunst des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, 1995, p. 161.
D. Heinz, Europische Tapisseriekunst des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, 1995, p. 161.