Lion hunt. Grenier, Jean (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, ) (workshop, attr.) [weaver] Poissonier, Arnould (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, ) (workshop, attr.) [weaver] c. 1500-1510 Tapestry Dimensions: H 12'8" x W 22'4" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: Southern Netherlands Ownership History: Le Comte Louis de Dreux Brezé coll. J. P. Morgan coll. French & Co. (around 1961). Jack Benardout coll., London. Private coll., Sao Paolo. United States, New York, New York, Sotheby's, Nov. 23, 1987, lot 495. In landscape, hunters on horseback & f
Lion hunt. Grenier, Jean (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, ) (workshop, attr.) [weaver] Poissonier, Arnould (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, ) (workshop, attr.) [weaver] c. 1500-1510 Tapestry Dimensions: H 12'8" x W 22'4" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: Southern Netherlands Ownership History: Le Comte Louis de Dreux Brezé coll. J. P. Morgan coll. French & Co. (around 1961). Jack Benardout coll., London. Private coll., Sao Paolo. United States, New York, New York, Sotheby's, Nov. 23, 1987, lot 495. In landscape, hunters on horseback & foot attack lions with spears, swords & bows-&-arrows (L, LWR & R BRD) garlands of flowers banded together with fan-like motifs; (UPR BRD) stylized foliage terminating in acorns, large acorn in center flanked by 2 small cherubim Possibly woven in Tournai (Campbell). GCPA 0184397 is shown on same print as GCPA 0240592 & 0184396 (Dimitrova). French & Co. stock sheet missing from archive, E-35 V & A, Tapestry Collection (1980), 30-32, Ricci, Twenty Renaissance Tapestries (1913), 4,5, no. I Delmarcel, Flemish Tapestry (1999), 164,165 Ackerman, Rockefeller McCormick tapestries (1932), Asselberghs, Tapisserie tournaisienne (1968), 12-16, Boccara, Belles heures de la tapisserie (1971), 56 Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0240584-0240585, 0240589-0240592, 0184396-0184397; compositionally similar tapestry (left 2/3 of composition), GCPA 0240593, 0184623
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