Lot Essay
The hunting scenes of the Marche (Aubusson and Felletin) tapestry manufacturers were in part directly inspired by Flemish tapestries, but also copied from engravings by J. Stradanus (d. 1605) and François Etienne Delaune (d. 1583).
A set of five tapestries with various hunting subjects, including a unicorn hunt scene with a brown and a white unicorn stabbing a hunter, previously in the Chevalier collection, is illustrated in D. and P. Chevalier and P.-F. Bertrand, Les Tapisseries d'Aubusson et de Felletin, Lausanne, 1988, pp. 29-33. A related bear hunt scene was sold anonymously in these rooms, 10 December 1992, lot 421
A set of five tapestries with various hunting subjects, including a unicorn hunt scene with a brown and a white unicorn stabbing a hunter, previously in the Chevalier collection, is illustrated in D. and P. Chevalier and P.-F. Bertrand, Les Tapisseries d'Aubusson et de Felletin, Lausanne, 1988, pp. 29-33. A related bear hunt scene was sold anonymously in these rooms, 10 December 1992, lot 421