Lot Essay
Göbel (op. cit) illustrates 'The Hero is Created a Knight' from the series of Don Quixote. The present and the following lot are cited as the two signed examples from the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Details
A FLEMISH BAROQUE PASTORAL TAPESTRY
FIRST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, BY URBAIN LEYNIERS (1703-1747), AFTER DAVID TENIERS II
Woven with a scene from the Story of Don Quixote depicting the hildago attacking the flock of sheep, with a villagescape in the distance, within ribbon and acanthus borders, the angles woven with scallop shells, the lower left selvedge woven with the weavers' inscription U LEYNIERS (areas of reweaving, replacements, guard borders later)-10ft. 4in. x 11ft. 2in. (3m. 10cm. x 3m. 35cm.)
FIRST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, BY URBAIN LEYNIERS (1703-1747), AFTER DAVID TENIERS II
Woven with a scene from the Story of Don Quixote depicting the hildago attacking the flock of sheep, with a villagescape in the distance, within ribbon and acanthus borders, the angles woven with scallop shells, the lower left selvedge woven with the weavers' inscription U LEYNIERS (areas of reweaving, replacements, guard borders later)-10ft. 4in. x 11ft. 2in. (3m. 10cm. x 3m. 35cm.)
Provenance
Mrs. E. W. Haines, Cleveland Ohio
Literature
H. Göbel, Tapestries of the Lowlands, New York, 1924, fig. 290 (NI)
Exhibited
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Ohio, 1918, no. 25
Further details
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
(Lots 194-195)
(Lots 194-195)