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Jan Mattens and Hendrick Mattens appear to have used the same monogram and were both active in the first half of the 17th Century (D. Heinz, Europäische Tapisseriekunst des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, 1995, p. 18).
A tapestry with very closely related borders bearing an unidentified but seemingly identical weaver's mark, probably by the same weaver and depicting St. Paul and the Burning of the Library at Ephesus, was sold at Sotheby's London, 25 May 1990, lot 23 whilst a further tapestry depicting an identical figure kneeling on a bull, but with variations to the surroundings and without the stoning scene to the background, described as The Sacrifice of Noah, is in the Spanish Royal collection (P. Junquera de Vega and C. Diaz Gallegos, Catalogo de Tapices del Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid 1986, vol. II, p. 176).
A tapestry with very closely related borders bearing an unidentified but seemingly identical weaver's mark, probably by the same weaver and depicting St. Paul and the Burning of the Library at Ephesus, was sold at Sotheby's London, 25 May 1990, lot 23 whilst a further tapestry depicting an identical figure kneeling on a bull, but with variations to the surroundings and without the stoning scene to the background, described as The Sacrifice of Noah, is in the Spanish Royal collection (P. Junquera de Vega and C. Diaz Gallegos, Catalogo de Tapices del Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid 1986, vol. II, p. 176).