Live Auction 1555European Noble & Private Collections Including Fine Tapestries Part I
A FLEMISH GAME-PARK TAPESTRY
Lot 232

A FLEMISH GAME-PARK TAPESTRY

SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY, PROBABLY ANTWERP

Closed30 September 2014

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A FLEMISH GAME-PARK TAPESTRY
SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY, PROBABLY ANTWERP
Depicting a pack of hounds chasing a stag within a wooded landscape, within a architectural border flanked to the sides by Solomonic columns surmounted by eagles and fruiting swags, with later brown outer slip
11 ft. 10 in. x 16 ft. 7 in. (360 cm x 506 cm.)

By repute this tapestry, part of a series, was hung in the Pinacoteca, now called Sala Degli Arazzi of Villa Borromeo on Isola Bella, Lake Maggiore, Italy, until 1942 when divided between the Borromeo heirs.