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A FLEMISH ALLEGORICAL TAPESTRY

LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY

Fermé20 April 2010

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USD 30,000

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A FLEMISH ALLEGORICAL TAPESTRY
LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY
From the series Playing Boys with a youth in a chariot inscribed TRIVMPHE DAMOUR holding a bow and an arrow-pierced heart, led by four putti in front of a classical arch and fountain amid foliage, with a château and balustrade in the background within a trellis border decorated with baskets of flowers and fruit sprays
9 ft. 8 in. (295 cm.) high, 14 ft. 2½ in. (433 cm.) wide

Note du spécialiste

This tapestry belongs to a group of tapestries generally known as the Playing Boys. The subject is derived from Italian tapestries woven in the 1540s, based on frescoes by Giulio Romano at the Palazzo del Te in Mantua. The winged children of the frescoes were engraved in Germany in 1529 and it was probably from these engravings, which omitted the wings, that the Brussels weavers drew their inspiration. The theme was much copied and also repeatedly woven at Gobelins, Beauvais, Aubusson, Madrid, Mortlake, Soho and other weaving centres.