A BRUSSELS MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY

Lot 11
21.09.2022 14:00UTC +00:00
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£ 60 000
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Lot 11 | A BRUSSELS MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY
Valeur estimée
£ 60 000 – 80 000
A BRUSSELS MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY

CIRCA 1550

Woven in polychrome wools and silks of green, red, blue and yellow, depicting a scene from the Illiad with Venus saving her son Aeneas from the wrath of Diomedes, the foreground with Aeneas falling before Diomedes, who is standing above him, his hands raised holding a large boulder, with Venus to the right her arms outstretched and holding a cape, the background with the city of Troy to the left and Diomedes pursuing Venus to the right, the figures inscribed 'Diomedes', 'Enea' and 'Venus' respectively, the border with a laurel band enriched with exotic birds, including parrots and herons, floral garlands and bunches of fruit, with a silk lining

141 x 153 1/2 in. (358 x 390 cm.)





Provenance

The Collection of J. Pierpoint Morgan, by whom given to his sister and brother-in-law, Mr and Mrs Walter Hayes Burns.(1838-1897), North Mymms Park, Hertfordshire, England.

North Mymms Park; sold Christie's house sale, 24-25 September 1979, lot 498 where purchased by the new owner

The Principal Contents of North Mymms Park; Sworders, Stanstead Mountfitchet, 17-18 April 2018, lot 313.



Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:

Arthur Oswald, 'North Mymms Park', Country Life, 13 and 20 January 1934.

Catalogo de tapices del Patrimonio Nacional, Volumen I: Siglo XVI, Madrid, 1986, pp. 297-303.



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