THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A MARCHE MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY FRAGMENT

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A MARCHE MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY FRAGMENT
LATE 16TH EARLY 17TH CENTURY

Woven in wools, with two huntsmen on horseback hunting two unicorns, flanked by trees and with a foliate foreground, the background with a town within a hilly landscape, within a brown slip, borders lacking, re-weaving and patching
104½in. x 77in. (265cm. x 196cm.)

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

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