ENGHIEN, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY, BY FILIPS VAN DER CAMMEN

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A FLEMISH MYTHOLOGICAL GAME-PARK TAPESTRY
ENGHIEN, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY, BY FILIPS VAN DER CAMMEN
Woven in wools and silks, depicting Diana and the story of Apollo and Daphne, with Diana and attendants in various locations in an open garden landscape with porticoes, the right with a narrative of the pursuit of Daphne by Apollo, within a border of fruiting baskets interspersed by medallions with mythological scenes and with muses, lacking outer guard borders, the lower section of the lower border rewoven, with two restored vertical cuts
11 ft. 3 in. (343 cm.) high, 14 ft. (427 cm.) wide

Literature

G. Delmarcel, Flemish Tapestry, Tielt, 1999, p. 175, footnote 134.

Lot Essay

The borders of this tapestry as well as the delicately drawn garden-landscape with mythological figures are very simlar to a tapestry at the Argenta Bank, Antwerp, which is signed by Filips van der Cammen (d. 1601) and tentatively dated to 1575 by Guy Delmarcel (Flemish Tapestry, Tielt, 1999, p. 174). Other similar works by him include three tapestries in a Belgian private collection and five in the château de Brissac, all signed with his initials 'PVC'.

The quality of these Enghien tapestries were such that they were passed off as Brussels works by some weavers. Interestingly several Enghien weavers, including Filips van der Cammen, are listed among those who lost tapestries when the Antwerp Tapestry-Maker's Hall was raided by the Spanish in 1576.

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