A BRUSSELS BAROQUE MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY

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A BRUSSELS BAROQUE MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY
LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY

Depicting "Springtime" and centrally woven with Psyche, who holds a cluster of flowers in one hand and a wreath in the other, behind her stands Cupid, who holds a wreath with Zephyr which they are about to place on Psyche's head, beside them is Flora who holds a wreath and a basket of flowers (lacking borders, areas of reweaving)-8ft. 3in. x 6ft. 5in. (2m. 60cm. x 1m. 93cm.)

Provenance

J. W. Harriman,
French and Company (1939)

Lot Essay

This Brussels silk and metallic thread tapestry relates to a series of tapestries woven at Gobelins depicting the 'Loves of Psyche' after drawings by Guilio Romano, a pupil of Raphael. M. Fenaille in Etat General des Tapisseries de la Manufacture des Gobelins, 1662-1699 vol. II, p. 253 illustrates a related tapestry after Romano now in the French Royal Collection.