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 Backgammon, with a group of peasants playing backgammon and drinking, the background with an extensive view of a hilly landscape with a town, within a later blue and yellow outer slip, reweaving and patching, reduced in size
8 ft. 2 in. x 6 ft. 8 in. (248 cm. x 203 cm.)

Lot Essay

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

This subject appears in two main versions, this grouping, and the second with various men sitting around a table and playing cards. The second version appears to be only signed by the widow of Guillaume Werniers, while the first is signed by him. A tapestry of this design was sold in Paris on 31 March 1930 (H.C. Marillier, Handbook to the Teniers Tapestries, London, 1932, plate 55a).

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