Youth of Christ: Massacre of innocents and Flight into Egypt. unknown c. 1480-1500 Tapestry Dimensions: H 4'6" x W 11'4" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk Culture: Southern Netherlands Ownership History: Bayeux Cathedral. G. Hoentschel coll. J. Pierpont Morgan coll. French & Co. purchased from J. P. Morgan coll., [ca. 1918 ?]; sold to Clarence H. [Hungerford] Mackay 6/15/1921. Clarence Hungerford Mackay coll. (before 1925). United States, South Carolina, Greenville, Bob Jones University Collection of Sacred Art. Within architectural building, enthroned King Herod gives orders to
Youth of Christ: Massacre of innocents and Flight into Egypt. unknown c. 1480-1500 Tapestry Dimensions: H 4'6" x W 11'4" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk Culture: Southern Netherlands Ownership History: Bayeux Cathedral. G. Hoentschel coll. J. Pierpont Morgan coll. French & Co. purchased from J. P. Morgan coll., [ca. 1918 ?]; sold to Clarence H. [Hungerford] Mackay 6/15/1921. Clarence Hungerford Mackay coll. (before 1925). United States, South Carolina, Greenville, Bob Jones University Collection of Sacred Art. Within architectural building, enthroned King Herod gives orders to slay children (L); soldiers massacre innocents (Matthew 2:13-23) (center); Madonna (Virgin Mary with Christ-child) riding donkey, as St. Joseph walks before them (Matthew 2:13-23) This tapestry is part of a set of six panels illustrating the "Story of the Virgin", commissioned by Léon Conseil, chancellor of the Bayeux Cathedral, & given by him to the Bayeux Cathedral in 1499. French & Co. stock sheet in archive, 10323-a [also lists: 19653] Joubert, Tapisserie médiévale Cluny (1987), 60-65 Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0239528-0239533, 0239535, 0239543; Paris, Musée Cluny, Ref. Cl. 22865, "Léon Conseil"; Paris, Musée Cluny, Ref. 22866, "Annunciation, Visitation, Mary & Joseph"
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