Achior and Holofernes. Reydams, Heinrich I (Flemish, ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1640-1670 Tapestry Dimensions: H 13' x W 13'9" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Brussels Ownership History: Barberini coll., Rome. Charles M. Ffoulke coll., Washington, (1889). French & Co. received from The Radnor Corporation, c/o H. Harrison Smith, 3/25/1944; returned, Inscriptions: City mark on lower guard, right of center [right of woven signature of weaver] Inscriptions: Inscription in upper border cartouche [not legible in photograph] Inscription
Achior and Holofernes. Reydams, Heinrich I (Flemish, ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1640-1670 Tapestry Dimensions: H 13' x W 13'9" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Brussels Ownership History: Barberini coll., Rome. Charles M. Ffoulke coll., Washington, (1889). French & Co. received from The Radnor Corporation, c/o H. Harrison Smith, 3/25/1944; returned, Inscriptions: City mark on lower guard, right of center [right of woven signature of weaver] Inscriptions: Inscription in upper border cartouche [not legible in photograph] Inscriptions: Woven signature in lower guard, right of center: H RYDAMS While feasting, Achior, leader of Ammonites, makes address to Holofernes about power of Israelite's god; Holofernes, enraged by Achior's speech, has him bound & taken from Holofernes' camp (Judith 4-7) (BRD) stylized shell & acanthus brackets, & other architectural elements, interspersed with bunches of flowers & fruit; (UPR BRD) headed by cartouche with inscription; (LWR BRD) centered by cartouche flanked by cherubim Set comprises 8 panels, 4 of them signed by E. Leyniers & 4 signed by H. Rydams (Cavallo). 2 bulletin clippings from 1917 are included with the photographs in the Photo Study Collection. They both review the show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in which these 8 panels were exhibited around January 1917 (Dimitrova). French & Co. stock sheet in archive, 76955-d Ffoulke, Collection of Tapestries (1913), 135-143, Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0239074-0239087, 0239089-0239092
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