Maypole dance. Teniers, David II (Flemish, 1610-1690) (designed after) [painter] Hecke, Peter van den (Flemish, ) (workshop, attr.) [weaver] c. 1700-1750 Tapestry Dimensions: H 12'3" x W 12'10" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Brussels Ownership History: French & Co. purchased from L. [Lionel] Harris 9/23/1927; sold to Louis Solomon 4/2/1929. Before inn, figures dancing around maypole; figure standing on inverted tub playing bagpipes, next to boy playing drum; boy seated on wall near small cascade; couple frolicking under tree; landscape with

Maypole dance. Teniers, David II (Flemish, 1610-1690) (designed after) [painter] Hecke, Peter van den (Flemish, ) (workshop, attr.) [weaver] c. 1700-1750 Tapestry Dimensions: H 12'3" x W 12'10" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Brussels Ownership History: French & Co. purchased from L. [Lionel] Harris 9/23/1927; sold to Louis Solomon 4/2/1929. Before inn, figures dancing around maypole; figure standing on inverted tub playing bagpipes, next to boy playing drum; boy seated on wall near small cascade; couple frolicking under tree; landscape with dancers, bagpiper, cottages & sheep in background (BRD) stylized floral design & inner narrow band of twisting ribbon motif, stylized foliage, in each corner This panel was probably woven by Peter van den Hecke who used this version of the composition & this border design. French & Co. stock sheet in archive, 15392 [also lists: 31360] Marillier, Teniers Tapestries (1932), 42, pl. 32a Bennett, Tapestry San Francisco (1992), 208-209, no. 62 Delmarcel, Flemish Tapestry (1999), 352-361, Related Works: Compositionally similar tapestry (small differences in border), San Francisco Fine Arts Museums, Ref. , "May dance"; (no borders & small differences in composition), GCPA 0239726 at Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, "Dance around May tree"

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