Stag in Old Age. unknown c. 1490-1520 Tapestry Dimensions: H 8'6" x W 11'5" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool (warp: 5-6/cm); wool & silk (weft); wool (embroidered in one area) Culture: Southern Netherlands Ownership History: French & Co. purchased from the Hayden Co. 9/13/1920; sold to J. G. Rogers 6/8/1921. Mary Stillman Harkness coll.; bequest to museum in 1950. United States, New York, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accno. Inscriptions: Inscription in upper R corner of central field on banner: Puis lassault viellesse aoultrance. Qui let fait hors du lac saillier / Et
Stag in Old Age. unknown c. 1490-1520 Tapestry Dimensions: H 8'6" x W 11'5" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool (warp: 5-6/cm); wool & silk (weft); wool (embroidered in one area) Culture: Southern Netherlands Ownership History: French & Co. purchased from the Hayden Co. 9/13/1920; sold to J. G. Rogers 6/8/1921. Mary Stillman Harkness coll.; bequest to museum in 1950. United States, New York, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accno. Inscriptions: Inscription in upper R corner of central field on banner: Puis lassault viellesse aoultrance. Qui let fait hors du lac saillier / Et lui lasche peine et doubtâce. Froet et chault et si fait venir / Soussy laboir pour le tenir. Et eage a la chere ridee / Et pesanteur le font sauie [fouir?]. Vers maladie la doubter [doubtee] Inscriptions: Inscription in at lower center of central field next to hounds: soussi, aige, froit, chault, peine In landscape, next to lake, elderly woman [=Old Age] leaning on walking staff, & group of 8 hounds [=Anxiety, Age, Cold, Heat, & Grief]; (center, foreground) follow stag leaping up in water (R); near far shore of lake, figure in boat with anchor line (center, middle ground); town, castle & forest in background Fragment of tapestry; borders missing. Rewoven parts in lower right corner. French & Co. stock sheet in archive, 22781 Cavallo, Medieval Tapestries (1993), 459-462 Met Notable Acqu 1965-75 (1975), 209, fig. 207 Ysselsteyn, Tapestry: Most Expensive Industry (1969), 185-86, fig. 209 Related Works: Stylistically similar tapestry (possibly same set), GCPA 0237045-0237047; iconographically similar tapestry, GCPA 0237055-0237056
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