拍品 376
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A BRUSSELS MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY woven in wools and silks, probably depicting a scene from the story of Jacob, the bearded Jacob in flowing red robes, beckoning a classical water-carrying maiden who is re-filling her urn, with a companion, from a spring, in an extensive wooded landscape with a peasant and further water-carrying maidens beyond, in a scrolling-foliate border depicting roses, tulips, peonies and other flowers on a brown ground, within a later pink slip, the border cut down, restorations and areas of re-weaving, reduced in width, reduced in width, mid-17th Century

细节
A BRUSSELS MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY woven in wools and silks, probably depicting a scene from the story of Jacob, the bearded Jacob in flowing red robes, beckoning a classical water-carrying maiden who is re-filling her urn, with a companion, from a spring, in an extensive wooded landscape with a peasant and further water-carrying maidens beyond, in a scrolling-foliate border depicting roses, tulips, peonies and other flowers on a brown ground, within a later pink slip, the border cut down, restorations and areas of re-weaving, reduced in width, reduced in width, mid-17th Century
119½ x 182in. (278 x 462cm.)

拍品专文

The history of Mark Anthony and Cleopatra was woven in Brussels from the cartoons by the pupils of Karel van Mander II (1579 - 1623). A set of five tapestries from this series in the Spanish Royal Collection currently in the Foreign Ministry, Madrid, are illustrated Catalogo de Tapices del Patrimonio Nacional, Volumen II: Siglo XVIII, Madrid, 1986, pp. 104-109. A slightly smaller version of this subject, the Reconciliation of Mark Anthony and Octavian, is illustrated, p. 105. Other tapestries from this series are in the former Austrian Imperial Collection, Vienna, and the Herron Museum of Art, Indianapolis