Live Auction 1555European Noble & Private Collections Including Fine Tapestries Part I
A FLEMISH HUNTING TAPESTRY
Lot 228 PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

A FLEMISH HUNTING TAPESTRY

BRUSSELS, LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY, ATTRIBUTED TO HENDRIK MATTENS

Closed30 September 2014

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GBP 13,750

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A FLEMISH HUNTING TAPESTRY
BRUSSELS, LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY, ATTRIBUTED TO HENDRIK MATTENS
Depicting a central cartouche with a scene of a boar hunt within a wooded landscape, with a village to the background, within a foliate strapwork surround, flanked by figural medallions of Europa and the Bull and a classical figure on horseback, set within scrollwork decorated with grotesques, birds, fruits and flowers, within a later blue and yellow outer slip, reduced in width
11 ft. x 9 ft. 5 in. (330 cm x 287 cm.)

Specialist note

A tapestry depicting a deer hunt from the same series and probably same set, from the collection of The Huntington Library, Art Collection and Botanical Gardens was sold Christie’s, New York, 7 June 2013, lot 159, while another of a whale hunt from this series but retaining its borders and signed by Hendrik Mattens is in a private collection.