A FLEMISH GAME-PARK TAPESTRY

LATE 16TH EARLY 17TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY MARCHE REGION

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A FLEMISH GAME-PARK TAPESTRY
LATE 16TH EARLY 17TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY MARCHE REGION
Woven in wools, the central field with a bull hunt with men on horseback pursuing two bulls with spears and roping them, set within a wooded landscape, the borders with fruiting foliate columns and blue outer guard borders, reduced in width, some areas of reweaving
9 ft. 7 in. (292 cm.) high, 9 ft. 4 in. (284 cm.) wide

拍品专文

Flemish weaving centers as well as in the Marche region of France (Aubusson and Felletin). These hunting scenes traditionally included falcon, lion, ostrich, fox, unicorn, rhinoceros, wolf, bear, boar and bull hunts and were inspired by engravings after Giovanni Stradano (d. 1605), Karel van Mander the Younger (d. 1623), David Vinckeboons (d. 1629) and François Etienne Delaune (d. 1583).

A tapestry based on the same design but with some differences to the figures and with differing borders from the Mayorcas collection, was sold Christie's, London, 12 February 1999, lot 317. A further very similar tapestry is illustrated in J. Boccara, Ames de Laine et de Soie, Saint-Just-en-Chausse, 1988, p. 188.