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Lot Essay
A set of seven closely related tapestries with very similar borders survive at the palace of Holyroodhouse (M. Swain,Tapestries and Textiles at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in the Royal Collection, Edinburgh, 1988, cat. 13, pp. 48 - 49) and may correspond to a set of eight panels of 'Landskip hangings' that were bought in London in 1668. Another set of eleven closely related panels which are called Brussels, of which several are only border fragments, survive in the Spanish Royal Collection (P. Junquera de Vega, C. Diaz Gallegos,Catalogo de Tapices del Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid, 1986, vol. II, cat. 125, pp. 275 - 286).
The greatest part of the tapestry production of Audenarde in the 17th century was devoted to verdure tapestries, while Brussels was much less prolific in this area, possibly because Audenarde had such a dominant position. Unfortunately there are almost no signed verdure tapestries from Audenarde that survive and most attributions have to be made on the basis of a few panels that are signed from the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (I. De Meüter, M. Vanwelden, Tapisseries d'Audenarde du XVIe au XVIIIe Siècle, Tielt, 1999, pp. 191 - 192).
The greatest part of the tapestry production of Audenarde in the 17th century was devoted to verdure tapestries, while Brussels was much less prolific in this area, possibly because Audenarde had such a dominant position. Unfortunately there are almost no signed verdure tapestries from Audenarde that survive and most attributions have to be made on the basis of a few panels that are signed from the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (I. De Meüter, M. Vanwelden, Tapisseries d'Audenarde du XVIe au XVIIIe Siècle, Tielt, 1999, pp. 191 - 192).