POSSIBLY ANTWERP, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY

细节

A FLEMISH MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY
POSSIBLY ANTWERP, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY
Woven in wools and silks, depicting Venus and Adonis, with a swan-drawn chariot of Venus in a verdure landscape with hounds and a boar, framed by a border with cabochon and garlands of flowers below and ram's heads to the top, within a blue outer slip, areas of reweaving
12 ft. 2 in. x 12 ft. 7 in. (370 cm. x 384 cm.)

来源

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 10 June 1999, lot 6.

注意事项

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拍品专文

A tapestry depicting Meleager handing the head of the Calydonian Boar to Atalanta with identical borders from the property of Grand Duchess Hilda of Baden, was sold Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 18 - 20 February 2003, lot 503.

The beautiful Adonis was helplessly loved by Diana, who had been grazed by Cupid's arrow. One day while out hunting, Adonis was mortally wounded by a boar. Hearing his dying groans Diana, who was flying overhead in her chariot, came down to aid him but it was too late. Where Adonis' blood stained the earth anemones sprouted.