Lot Essay
This tapestry is from one of the "Nine Heroes" series which depicted three heroes of Classical Antiquity, three from the Old Testatment and three Christian heroes. The present example depicts Hector, commander of the Trojan armies, on the eve of the battle saying farewell to his wife and child. Two examples from this series depicting Godfrey of Bouillon and Julius Caesar are illustrated in H. Gobel, Tapestries of the Lowlands, New York, 1924, fig. 83-84.