4A BRUSSELS MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY, woven with metal-thread, wools and silks and depicting The Rape of Europa, Europa seated by the garlanded bull and being led away by Cupid, her female companions looking on, in an extensive wooded landscape with parrots, turkeys and other animals and a riverside town beyond, the border with perspectival inner-slip and outer slip woven with trailing foliate arabesques with overflowing gadrooned urns with roses, tulips and other flowers, signed BEHAEGHE and with a fleur de lys, restorations and some patching, late 17th Century
Details
4A BRUSSELS MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY, woven with metal-thread, wools and silks and depicting The Rape of Europa, Europa seated by the garlanded bull and being led away by Cupid, her female companions looking on, in an extensive wooded landscape with parrots, turkeys and other animals and a riverside town beyond, the border with perspectival inner-slip and outer slip woven with trailing foliate arabesques with overflowing gadrooned urns with roses, tulips and other flowers, signed BEHAEGHE and with a fleur de lys, restorations and some patching, late 17th Century
134½ x 183½in. (342 x 466cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous Sale Christie's New York, 1 November 1989, lot 209
Lot Essay
Philippe Behagle is recorded as having worked until 1678