A SET OF FOUR BRUSSELS RENAISSANCE TAPESTRY FRAGMENTS

细节

A SET OF FOUR BRUSSELS RENAISSANCE TAPESTRY FRAGMENTS
MID-16TH CENTURY

Each panel woven with grotesques springing from fountains and flanked by garlands and acanthus leaf borders, with the associated arms of the Doria family-12ft. 3in. x 2ft. 9in. (3m. 76cm. x 84cm.) (4)

来源

Emile Gavet sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Palais, 31 May - 9 June 1897, no. 782

出版

E. Standen, European Post-Medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985, vol. I, p. 102

拍品专文

This lot is composed of fragments salvaged after a fire from the 'Neptune' tapestry, which was from a series of tapestries depicting Olympian Gods surrounded by grotesque borders. The series was woven in the mid-16th century from cartoons after Perino del Vage, a follower of Raphael (Standen, op. cit.).