A FLEMISH HUNTING TAPESTRY

The present panel is inspired by the original 16th century Bernard van Orley designs for this series of the Hunts of Maximilian, and the main figures in the present panel are taken from the Orley composition depicting `July’, and are the figures on the far right of the wider original scene, together with the identifiable church of Rouge-Cloître, in the background. For comprehensive discussion and illustrations of the series, see Daniel Alcouffe, Les Chasses de Maximilien, Musée du Louvre department des Objects d’art, Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris, 1993, and pp.22-23, fig.18, for the orginal wider Orley composition of Les mois de Juillet, and zodiac sign border.