A LILLE TENIERS PASTORAL TAPESTRY

EARLY 18TH CENTURY, ATTRIBUTED TO GUILLAUME WERNIERS, AFTER DAVID TENIERS THE YOUNGER

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A LILLE TENIERS PASTORAL TAPESTRY
Early 18th Century, attributed to Guillaume Werniers, after David Teniers the younger
Woven in wools and silks, depicting two peasants standing before a bench with a beer jug and standing behind a man playing the bagpipe, within a wooded landscape with a red parrot, within a later blue and yellow outer slip, reweaving and patching, reduced in size
8 ft. 2 in. x 5ft. 3 in. (249 cm. x 161 cm.)

拍品专文

Teniers tapestries were woven in Lille from the very late 17th Century, when Jan de Melter (d. 1698), who established his workshop in 1688, is recorded as having delivered a set to Michel le Pelletier. It was, however, with the arrival of his son-in-law Guillaume Werniers (d. 1738), who married de Melter's daughter in 1700, that Lille started to weave the subject in finer quality and with a greater number of variants.

A tapestry with three identical figures standing before a bench, but the subject extending further to the left to include a group of dancing peasants, is illustrated in H.C. Marillier, Handbook of the Teniers Tapestries, London, 1932, plate 47, while another signed 'G. Wernirs' and bearing the Lille town mark, from the collection of Bernard Le Strange, Hunstanton Hall, Norfolk, was sold in these Rooms, 16 February 1950, lot 137.