A FLEMISH BIBLICAL TAPESTRY

BRUSSELS, BY MAARTEN II REYMBOUTS, LATE 16TH EARLY 17TH CENTURY

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A FLEMISH BIBLICAL TAPESTRY
BRUSSELS, BY MAARTEN II REYMBOUTS, LATE 16TH EARLY 17TH CENTURY
Possibly depicting Abraham and Abimelech (Gen. 20) within a mountainous landscape in a border of fruit and garlands and perching birds, woven with maker's mark of Martin II Reymbouts to the outer slip on the bottom right and marked for Brussels to the bottom left, the outer slip partially replaced to top and bottom
344 cm. x 253 cm.

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Acquired from Charles van der Heyden, Rotterdam.

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The weaver's mark on this tapestry is that of Martin II Reymbouts (d. 1619). Reymbouts, who came out of one of the main weavers' families of Brussels, can be traced back as having lost most of his possessions during the sacking of Antwerp in 1576. He ran one of the nine larger studios which were 'privileged' by the council in 1613, being able to produce at least two large sets of tapestries per year. He had a preference for the tapestry designs of the principal period of Brussels' tapestry production in the mid-16th Century, and wove these subjects into the early 17th Century.