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This tapestry belongs to a series of eight tapestries depicting The Story of Zenobia and depicts the life of Zenobia and the Emperor Aurelius. This panel shows Aurelius wounded in the battle before Palmyra.
The designs are attributable to Justus van Egmont (d. 1674), who also designed a series depicting The Life of Augustus, and are dateable to circa 1665. Van Egmont was a a pupil of Rubens and later a court painter to both Louis III and Louis XIV. He was one of the founders of the Académie de Peinture in Paris in 1648 but returned to Brussels and Antwerp in the mid-17th Century where he designed tapestry sets.
Gerard Peemans took over the workshop of van der Strecken in circa 1660 and led it until 1707. He initially employed 14 weavers on six looms but by 1683 had 33 weavers, one of the largest numbers at that time in Brussels. His importance is also evident in the quality of his oeuvre, working on the most important series of the time.
A set of eight panels from this series, but with variant borders, is in the Spanish Royal Collection (P. Junquera de Vega and C. Diaz Gallegos, Catalogo de Tapices del Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid, 1986, vol. II, cat. 62, pp. 164-172, this subject being p. 170).
The designs are attributable to Justus van Egmont (d. 1674), who also designed a series depicting The Life of Augustus, and are dateable to circa 1665. Van Egmont was a a pupil of Rubens and later a court painter to both Louis III and Louis XIV. He was one of the founders of the Académie de Peinture in Paris in 1648 but returned to Brussels and Antwerp in the mid-17th Century where he designed tapestry sets.
Gerard Peemans took over the workshop of van der Strecken in circa 1660 and led it until 1707. He initially employed 14 weavers on six looms but by 1683 had 33 weavers, one of the largest numbers at that time in Brussels. His importance is also evident in the quality of his oeuvre, working on the most important series of the time.
A set of eight panels from this series, but with variant borders, is in the Spanish Royal Collection (P. Junquera de Vega and C. Diaz Gallegos, Catalogo de Tapices del Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid, 1986, vol. II, cat. 62, pp. 164-172, this subject being p. 170).