PROPERTY OF AN INSTITUTION
A FLEMISH BAROQUE VERDURE TAPESTRY

细节
A FLEMISH BAROQUE VERDURE TAPESTRY
EARLY 17TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY OUDENAARDE

Centrally woven with a fortress and a moat, with swans and a footbridge within a dense landscape (areas of reweaving throughout, lacking borders)-7ft. 1in. x 10ft. 7in. (2m. 12cm. x 1m. 27cm.)

A related verdure by Jan Segers, circa 1630, woven with elaborate foliate borders enclosing cartouches is illustrated in H. Göbel, Tapestries of the Lowlands, New York, 1924, fig. 357.