Triumph of Time over Fame. unknown c. 1500-1530 Tapestry Dimensions: H 12'" x W 12'" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool (warp: 4-5/cm); wool & silk (weft) Culture: Southern Netherlands Ownership History: French & Co. purchased from Arnold Seligmann Rey & Co., Inc. 11/16/1916; sold to George Pratt 2/19/1921. Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935. United States, New York, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accno. Inscriptions: Inscription on banderoles above scene: Le [t]emps esmeu apres noises debas / V[i]el et casse sans craindre aucun port darmes / A renomme a faict plusi
Triumph of Time over Fame. unknown c. 1500-1530 Tapestry Dimensions: H 12'" x W 12'" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool (warp: 4-5/cm); wool & silk (weft) Culture: Southern Netherlands Ownership History: French & Co. purchased from Arnold Seligmann Rey & Co., Inc. 11/16/1916; sold to George Pratt 2/19/1921. Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935. United States, New York, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accno. Inscriptions: Inscription on banderoles above scene: Le [t]emps esmeu apres noises debas / V[i]el et casse sans craindre aucun port darmes / A renomme a faict plusiers a larmes / Et du plus hault il la remise au bas [Time, roused by quarrels from below, Old and worn out, fearing no battle / Has attacked Fame again and again / And knocked her down from her pinnacle] Inscriptions: Inscriptions identifying figures: mathusale, noe, nestor, Adam Inscribed banderole above scene; personification of Time seated in cart pulled by 2 stags; along side cart are figures of Methuselah, Noah, Nestor, & Adam; personification of Fame lies beneath wheels of cart, her horn beside her French & Co. stock sheet in archive, 3835-b Cavallo, Medieval Tapestries (1993), no. 33 Scheicher, JbKhistWien 61 (1971), 1-46 Related Works: Compositionally similar tapestry (same cartoon): GCPA
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