Old Age drives Stag out of a Lake. unknown c. 1495-1525 Tapestry Dimensions: H 3'3/8" x W 2'11" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool (warp: 5-6/cm); wool & silk (weft) Culture: Southern Netherlands Ownership History: Commissioned by Guy de Baudreuil, abbé comendataire of the abbey of Saint-Martin-aux-Bois in the doicese of Beauvais. M. and Mme. Kermaingant coll., Paris, by 1886. Property of French & Co. by 1923. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lehman coll., New York, 1923. Bequeathed to the MMA by Adele L. Lehman, in memory of Arthur Lehman, 1965. United States, New York, New York, The Metropolitan Museum
Old Age drives Stag out of a Lake. unknown c. 1495-1525 Tapestry Dimensions: H 3'3/8" x W 2'11" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool (warp: 5-6/cm); wool & silk (weft) Culture: Southern Netherlands Ownership History: Commissioned by Guy de Baudreuil, abbé comendataire of the abbey of Saint-Martin-aux-Bois in the doicese of Beauvais. M. and Mme. Kermaingant coll., Paris, by 1886. Property of French & Co. by 1923. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lehman coll., New York, 1923. Bequeathed to the MMA by Adele L. Lehman, in memory of Arthur Lehman, 1965. United States, New York, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accno. Inscriptions: Inscription in lower central field on banderole in lower: Puis lassault viellesse a oultrace. Qui le fait hors du lac saillir / Et luy lasche peine et deage [doubtance]. E[t] Chault et froit et fait venir / Soucy enuy pour le tenir. Et aage a la chere ridee / Et pesanteur le fot fouyr. Devers maladie la doubtee Inscriptions: Inscription in central field on garment of female figure: vielles[se] [Old Age] Inscriptions: Inscription in central field on hounds: peine, aage, doubtace, pesanteur, enuy, soucy, chault, froit At edge of lake, elderly woman [=Old Age] with walking staff in each hand looks toward stag in water assaulted by 8 hounds [=Cold, Heat, Anxiety, Vexation, Heaviness, Fear, Age, & Grief]; trees in background Fragment of tapestry; borders missing. Rewoven parts along right side including the banderole (Cavallo). Together with the 4 other fragments in the set, the piece was probably part of a choir hanging (Cavallo). French & Co. photograph shows tapestry fragment in Gothic style frame (Steele). No French & Co. stock sheet in archive, no stock number Cavallo, Medieval Tapestries (1993), 347-358, fig. 24c Hunter, Practical book of Tapestries (1925), 71-72 Met Notable Acqu 1965-75 (1975), 164 Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0237048-0237056; iconographically similar tapestries, GCPA 0237044-0237047
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