ANTWERP, MID-17TH CENTURY, AFTER ABRAHAM VAN DIEPENBECK, PROBABLY BY FILIPP WAUTERS

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A FLEMISH BIBLICAL TAPESTRY
ANTWERP, MID-17TH CENTURY, AFTER ABRAHAM VAN DIEPENBECK, PROBABLY BY FILIPP WAUTERS
Woven in silks and wools, depicting 'The Finding of Moses' from the series of 'The Life of Moses', with the infant Moses in a basket in the left foreground and the standing figures of ... to the right, with a river landscape beyond, within an architectural border with herm figures supporting fruiting vases and with parrots to their bases, top and bottom with garlands, the bottom centred by a cabochon in a scrollwork cartouche
11 ft. 2 in. x 10 ft. 7 in. (340 cm. x 323 cm.)

Provenance

Mostra Internazionale Antiquariato di Firenze, 1969, (ill. cat. p. 623).
Galleria Bruno Vangelisti, Lucca, 1975.

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Lot Essay

This tapestry depicts a scene from The Life of Moses designed by Abraham van Diepenbeeck (d. 1675) for the weavers Michel or Filipp Wauters (d. 1679) (D.Heinz, Europäische Tapissesiekunst des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, 1995, p. 74). A tapestry from this series and depicting The Brazen Serpent was sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 30 October 1997, lot 222. Nearly identical borders appear on a Story of Zenobia series at château Tarascon by Filipp Wauters ('Chefs-d'oeuvre de la Tapisserie', Exhibition Catalogue, 1996, pp. 68-70) and The Story of Esther.

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