Cyrus takes Croesus prisoner and seizes Sardis. Coxie, Michiel (the Elder) (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, 1499-1592) (designed after, attr.) [painter] Tiegen, Jan van (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, ) (workshop) [weaver] Leyniers, Nikolaus (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1550 Tapestry Dimensions: H 410 x W 700 cm Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool; silk; metallic thread (gold); metallic thread (silver) Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Brussels Ownership History: Inventory of Carlos II (1701-1703). Inventory of Carlos III (17
Cyrus takes Croesus prisoner and seizes Sardis. Coxie, Michiel (the Elder) (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, 1499-1592) (designed after, attr.) [painter] Tiegen, Jan van (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, ) (workshop) [weaver] Leyniers, Nikolaus (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1550 Tapestry Dimensions: H 410 x W 700 cm Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool; silk; metallic thread (gold); metallic thread (silver) Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Brussels Ownership History: Inventory of Carlos II (1701-1703). Inventory of Carlos III (1788). Inventory of Fernando VII (1834). Spain, Madrid, Madrid, Palacio Real de Aranjuez, accno. Inscriptions: Weaver mark on right guard, bottom [partially visible in photograph] Inscriptions: Inscription in upper border cartouche: Babilonus rex lydorum ... Inscriptions: Inscription in lower border (from left to right): FAMA / CON/ STAT ... Man on foot drives spear into back of Croesus (?) on horse (center, foreground); Cyrus (?) enters on horse with armed soldiers (L, foreground); battle scenes (L & R, middle ground); castle (R of center, background) (L & R BRD) vases of flowers with female figure at top, male figure at bottom; (UPR BRD) vases of flowers, central cartouche with inscription; (LWR BRD) various animals framed by female statue-columns, central medallion within cartouche, tablet with inscription at each end 1 in set of 10 panels; Photo Study Collection does not represent panel no. 8. Junquera de Vega, Catalogo de Tapices, Vol. I (1986), 279-289, series 39, no. 4; 290-296, series 40, nos. 1-6 Calvert, Spanish Royal Tapestries (1921), 62-64 Valencia de Don Juan, Tapices de la Corona de España, 79,80, pl. 120 Bennett, Tapestry San Francisco (1992), 152-157, nos. 42,43 Herodotus, Histories (Penguin, 1983), 72-75 Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0240878-0240886; another similar set (borders with Virtues): Madrid, Patrimonio Nacional, series 40, "Historia
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