A FLEMISH BIBLICAL TAPESTRY
AUDENAARDE, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
Woven in silks and wools, depictingTobias before his blinded father Tobit and mother Anna, in a landscape setting, the border woven with alternating allegorical standing figures and groupings of exotic fruit, two outer slips later, some minor areas of reweaving
9 ft. 1 in. x 6 ft. 4 ½ in. (277 cm. x 196 cm.)
A FLEMISH BIBLICAL TAPESTRY
AUDENAARDE, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
Woven in silks and wools, depictingTobias before his blinded father Tobit and mother Anna, in a landscape setting, the border woven with alternating allegorical standing figures and groupings of exotic fruit, two outer slips later, some minor areas of reweaving
9 ft. 1 in. x 6 ft. 4 ½ in. (277 cm. x 196 cm.)