A LILLE TENIERS PASTORAL TAPESTRY

EARLY 18TH CENTURY, ATTRIBUTED TO GUILLAUME WERNIERS, AFTER DAVID TENIERS THE YOUNGER

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A LILLE TENIERS PASTORAL TAPESTRY
Early 18th Century, attributed to Guillaume Werniers, after David Teniers the younger
Woven in wools and silks, depicting Musicians Resting, with a seated peasant playing a recorder and a further shepherd seated before him, before an extensive landscape by a water with a ship, within a later blue and yellow outer slip, reduced in size, reweaving and some larger patches
8 ft. 3 in. x 4 ft. 6 in. (251 cm. x 138 cm.)

拍品专文

For a general discussion of Lille Teniers tapestries please see the note to lot 221

A larger tapestry which incorporates these figures, belonged to Lord Erne and was at Château d'Anet (H.C. Marillier, Handbook of the Teniers Tapestries, London, 1932, plate 57a), while another incorporating two maidens and a cow before a pond is in the Quirinale (N. F. Grazzini, Gli Arazzi, Rome, 1994, vol. II, p. 362). The two peasants feature with small variants in two paintings entitled The Piping Peasant and The Resting Peasant (Grazzini, op. cit., p. 265). One of the larger tapestry compositions from the property of Lt. Col. Sir Philip Brocklehurst, Bt. [+], Swythamley Hall, Macclesfield, was sold in these Rooms, 1 April 1976, lot 113, while another was sold anonymously at Christie's New York, 11 January 1996, lot 210.