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A Tournai late Medieval Pastoral Tapestry circa 1460
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description
- height 9ft. 6 1/2 in.; width 15ft. 10in.
- 2.91m; 4.83m
shepherds and shepherdesses amidst flora and fauna, a poet in the center and a couple embracing to the left, a town in the hilly distance and a bishop's hat surmounting a coat of arms in the top center.
Provenance
Emile Gaillard, Paris
George and Florence Blumenthal, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941)
George and Florence Blumenthal, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941)
Literature
Emile Gaillard Collection, sale catalogue (By Emile Molinier) Paris, 1904, p. 159, no. 764
S. Rubinstein-Bloch, Catalogue of the collection of George and Florence Blumenthal, New York, 1927, vol. IV, pl.VI
Heinrich Gðbel, Tapestries of the Lowlands, New York, 1974 ed., pl. 259