拍品 248

A FLEMISH PASTORAL TAPESTRY

BRUSSELS, LATE 17TH EARLY 18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY MORTLAKE OR SOHO

已結束2009年11月5日

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GBP 27,500

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A FLEMISH PASTORAL TAPESTRY
BRUSSELS, LATE 17TH EARLY 18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY MORTLAKE OR SOHO
Woven in silks and wools, depicting a scene from the series 'Playing Boys' with a group of children in a wooded landscape drinking from a fountain, picking fruit and blowing soap bubbles, a classical building and a town beyond, within a stylised leaf tip border and later brown outer guard border, reduced in height
7 ft. 9 in. x 13 ft. 9 in. (235 cm x 420 cm.)

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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.