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BY URBAIN AND DANIEL LEYNIERS, BRUSSELS, SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, AFTER JAN VAN ORLEY AND AUGUSTIN COPPENS
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A FLEMISH MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY
BY URBAIN AND DANIEL LEYNIERS, BRUSSELS, SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, AFTER JAN VAN ORLEY AND AUGUSTIN COPPENS
Woven in wools and silks, depicting a scene from 'The Story of Telemachus', with the seated Telemachus telling his story to Calypso and her attending maidens, within a rocky landscape, his mentor beyond and the goddes Minerva observing from a cloud above, lacking borders, within a later blue slip
10 ft. 7 in. x 16 ft. 8 in. (322 cm. x 508 cm.)
BY URBAIN AND DANIEL LEYNIERS, BRUSSELS, SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, AFTER JAN VAN ORLEY AND AUGUSTIN COPPENS
Woven in wools and silks, depicting a scene from 'The Story of Telemachus', with the seated Telemachus telling his story to Calypso and her attending maidens, within a rocky landscape, his mentor beyond and the goddes Minerva observing from a cloud above, lacking borders, within a later blue slip
10 ft. 7 in. x 16 ft. 8 in. (322 cm. x 508 cm.)
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
G. Delmarcel, Flemish Tapestry from teh Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century, Paris, 1999, p. 328.
M. Jarry, La Tapisserie des origines a nos jours, 1968, pp. 257-259.
H. Goebel, Tapestries of the low lands, 1974.
G. Delmarcel, Flemish Tapestry from teh Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century, Paris, 1999, p. 328.
M. Jarry, La Tapisserie des origines a nos jours, 1968, pp. 257-259.
H. Goebel, Tapestries of the low lands, 1974.
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