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Lot Essay
Lodewijk Van Schoor (d. 1726) was one of the major figures of tapestry design in the late 17th early 18th century. He was accepted as a master in Antwerp in 1664 and later enrolled in the Brussels painter guild in 1678. Numerous, mainly allegorical tapestry series by him are known and include the Four Seasons (M. Crick-Kuntziger, Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis te Brussel, Catalogus van de Wandtapijten, Brussels, n.d., pl. 84), the Continents (L. Baldass, Die Wiener Gobelinssammlung, Vienna, 1920, cats. 284 - 287), Euridice (Baldass, op. cit., cats. 278 - 279) and Perseus and Andromeda (Crick-Kunziger, op. cit., pl. 86).
Jan Frans van der Hecke, dean of the tapestry guild in 1662 and active until after 1700, was a member of one of the dominant tapestry weaver's dynasties in Brussels in the 17th Century.
A tapestry of identical design was sold anonymously, Christie's, New York, 6 March 1991, lot 142, while another, signed by Jan Frans van der Hecke is reputedly in the Bayerische Staatliche Verwaltung der Schl/uosser, G/uarten und Seen, Munich.
Jan Frans van der Hecke, dean of the tapestry guild in 1662 and active until after 1700, was a member of one of the dominant tapestry weaver's dynasties in Brussels in the 17th Century.
A tapestry of identical design was sold anonymously, Christie's, New York, 6 March 1991, lot 142, while another, signed by Jan Frans van der Hecke is reputedly in the Bayerische Staatliche Verwaltung der Schl/uosser, G/uarten und Seen, Munich.