A FLEMISH PASTORAL TAPESTRY FROM `LES AMOURS DE GOMBAULT AND MACEE`

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A FLEMISH PASTORAL TAPESTRY FROM 'LES AMOURS DE GOMBAULT AND MACEE'

BRUGES, CIRCA 1590-1610

Woven in silks and wools, depicting the peasant feast celebrating the engagement of Gombault and Macée, with figures in a pastoral landscape eating, drinking and hunting before a church and a mill, the foreground with animals including birds of prey, hunting dogs, lambs and goats, the central field with parchment scrolls inscribed with phrases, within a border decorated with flowering vases, baskets of fruit, gardening implements and ram's heads, the outer slip decorated with a foliate motif

141 x 133 in. (358 x 338 cm.)





Provenance

Collection of M. Raymond Saunal, Nouveau Drouot, Paris, 24 September 1982, lot 152.

with Boccara Gallery, New York.

Private Collection.



Literature

G. Delmarcel, Flemish Tapestry, London, 1999, pp. 199-202.

T.P. Campbell, Tapestry in the Baroque Threads of Splendour, 2007, New York, pp. 62 and127.



COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

'Le Prix de l'Art / guide annuel des ventes publiques', Connaissance des Arts, no. 13, p. 60.





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