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A FLEMISH MYTHOLOGICAL GAMEPARK TAPESTRY
拍品 441 Property from the Estate of the late Professor Harold V. Livermore

A FLEMISH MYTHOLOGICAL GAMEPARK TAPESTRY

AUDENARDE, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY

已结束2011年3月8日

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GBP 10,000

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A FLEMISH MYTHOLOGICAL GAMEPARK TAPESTRY
AUDENARDE, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
Woven in wools, depicting Eurydice being bitten by a snake, with courtly dressed figures in a wooded landscape, ladies in the foreground picking berries and mounted huntsmen beyond, in the background formal gardens, within a later twist spiral twist border, heightened with some surface colour
7 ft. 11 in. x 9 ft. 10 in. (242 x 300 cm.)

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Eurydice, a wood nymph married to Orpheus died from a snake bite whilst fleeing a suitor. Orpheus descended to Hades and convinced Pluto to allow her to follow him back to earth, but only if Orpheus did not look back at her; at the last moment he did and Eurydice vanished forever.