Covetousness. Coecke van Aelst, Pieter (the Younger) (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, ) (author of design) [painter] c. 1545 Tapestry Dimensions: H x W m Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk (weft); metallic thread (gold, weft); metallic thread (silver, weft) Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Brussels Ownership History: Count Egmont coll., Brussels. Philip II coll., Madrid. Spain, Madrid, Palacio Real de Madrid, accno. A. 336-11194. Inscriptions: Inscription in upper border: SEMPER EGET SITIENS MEDIIS CEV TANTALVS VNDIS/INTER ANHELATAS SEMPER AVARVS OPES
Covetousness. Coecke van Aelst, Pieter (the Younger) (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, ) (author of design) [painter] c. 1545 Tapestry Dimensions: H x W m Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk (weft); metallic thread (gold, weft); metallic thread (silver, weft) Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Brussels Ownership History: Count Egmont coll., Brussels. Philip II coll., Madrid. Spain, Madrid, Palacio Real de Madrid, accno. A. 336-11194. Inscriptions: Inscription in upper border: SEMPER EGET SITIENS MEDIIS CEV TANTALVS VNDIS/INTER ANHELATAS SEMPER AVARVS OPES Inscriptions: Inscription in lower border [partially legible in photograph]: NVDATVM LARGO CORPVS DONASTIS AMICTVS Covetousness (L, middle ground) seated on chariot drawn by bird of prey & bending over coffer filled with coins, King Midas (foreground, center) with ass's ears, riding horse, dead bodies on ground, men following chariot (L, middle ground), figures riding horses (R), landscape with classical temple (background) (BRD) strapwork interspersed with flowers, fruits, animals & figures; (UPR BRD, center) banderole with inscription; (LWR BRD, center) cartouche with figures in center; (L & R BRD) terminal figures, putti playing & holding urns with flames Junquera de Vega, Catalogo de Tapices, Vol. I (1986), 143-149, series 21, no. 1 Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0238187-0238191; another similar set (possibly woven after same cartoons), GCPA: 0238192-0238195 (Madrid set no. 2)
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