A FLEMISH GAME-PARK TAPESTRY

SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY

細節

A FLEMISH GAME-PARK TAPESTRY
Second half 16th Century
En suite with the preceding lot, woven in wools and silks, depicting the Bull Hunt, with various hunters and dogs within a wooded landscape with birds and foliage to the foreground and a castle with formal gardens and mountains in the background, flanked by trees, within a later ribbon-tied berried foliate border with animal masks to the angles and green outer slip, limited areas of reweaving and patching
8 ft. 7 in. x 8 ft. 4 in. (262 cm. x 254 cm.)

來源

Mr. Rudolf Welter, Ritterhaus Gulderngossa, near Leipzig, 1932, thence by descent to the present owner.

拍品專文

Further tapestries which have very similar composition, one of a Lion Hunt and another of a Fox Hunt, were sold anonymously at Ader Picard Tajan, Paris, 18 March 1980, lot 160, and 9 December 1981, lot 328 respectively, while a further panel depicting a Bear Hunt is illustrated in 'Les Fastes de la Tapisserie', exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1984, p. 39, cat. 16.

See also lot 197 of this sale.