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拍品专文
Franz Raes was the son of Jan Raes the elder and brother of Jan Raes the younger, who received the privileges in Brussels in 1629. Jan Raes' workshop was one of the most successful tapestry manufactories of the period and Franz is recorded as having worked with him on several occasions.
This tapestry belongs to a series depicting Hunting Scenes, which consist of eight panels, and appears to have first been woven by Everaert Leyniers and Hendrik I Reydams in the mid-1640s. The design of the main scene of this tapestry can be attributed to the Florentine painter Antonio Tempesta (d. 1630), best pupil of Jan van der Straeten (Stradanus), who specialised in hunting scenes, battles and processions. He produced more than 1800 engravings and worked for pope Gregory XIII in the Vatican and decorated the palazzo of Marquese Giustiniani. The borders of the tapestry are very closely related to a set depicting The Life of Achilles woven by Jan and Franz Raes between 1649 and 1669. That series does, however, not appear to be the first on which this type of border was used, as a document dated 20 August 1649 records that Jan Raes wove a set of pastoral tapestries to the design of the Flemish painter Lucas van Uden (d. 1672 or 1673) with identical borders for Octavio Piccolomini, governor of the Spain in The Netherlands between 1644 and 1648.
A set of three tapestries from this series signed by Franz Raes and with identical borders, therefore almost certainly belonging to the same set as this tapestry, is in the collection of Martini Rossi (D. Heinz, Europäische Tapisseriekunst des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, 1995, p. 20).
This tapestry belongs to a series depicting Hunting Scenes, which consist of eight panels, and appears to have first been woven by Everaert Leyniers and Hendrik I Reydams in the mid-1640s. The design of the main scene of this tapestry can be attributed to the Florentine painter Antonio Tempesta (d. 1630), best pupil of Jan van der Straeten (Stradanus), who specialised in hunting scenes, battles and processions. He produced more than 1800 engravings and worked for pope Gregory XIII in the Vatican and decorated the palazzo of Marquese Giustiniani. The borders of the tapestry are very closely related to a set depicting The Life of Achilles woven by Jan and Franz Raes between 1649 and 1669. That series does, however, not appear to be the first on which this type of border was used, as a document dated 20 August 1649 records that Jan Raes wove a set of pastoral tapestries to the design of the Flemish painter Lucas van Uden (d. 1672 or 1673) with identical borders for Octavio Piccolomini, governor of the Spain in The Netherlands between 1644 and 1648.
A set of three tapestries from this series signed by Franz Raes and with identical borders, therefore almost certainly belonging to the same set as this tapestry, is in the collection of Martini Rossi (D. Heinz, Europäische Tapisseriekunst des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, 1995, p. 20).