Triumph of Death over Chastity. unknown c. 1500-1535 Tapestry Dimensions: H 10' x W 3'7" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: Flemish Ownership History: Baron d'Ezpelata coll., Château de Septmonts (Aisne), France. French & Co. received from N. de Koenigsberg, 9/26/1957; returned 2/19/1959. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel C. Jackling coll. Gift to Museum from Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gill through the patrons of Art and Music, 1959. United States, California, San Francisco, The Fine Arts Museum, accno. Inscriptions: Inscription in central field next to man with urinal: INNOCENCE In landscap
Triumph of Death over Chastity. unknown c. 1500-1535 Tapestry Dimensions: H 10' x W 3'7" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: Flemish Ownership History: Baron d'Ezpelata coll., Château de Septmonts (Aisne), France. French & Co. received from N. de Koenigsberg, 9/26/1957; returned 2/19/1959. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel C. Jackling coll. Gift to Museum from Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gill through the patrons of Art and Music, 1959. United States, California, San Francisco, The Fine Arts Museum, accno. Inscriptions: Inscription in central field next to man with urinal: INNOCENCE In landscape, 2 buffaloes in harness, 1 looks ahead toward leading figure of Pandora, of which only leg & arm is visible; 1, looks back at cart being drawn, of which only front edge is visible; next to their hoofs, in meadow, personification of Chastity lying beside broken column; behind buffaloes, personification of Innocence holding; overhead, thread on spindle in hand of unseen figure; reptiles in grass & air; cityscape in background Fragment of tapestry; right half only of the complete composition, except that the right end (complete figure of Pandora) also is missing. Borders missing. French & Co. stock sheet in archive, 58350 [also lists: 4606e] Bennett, Tapestry San Francisco (1992), 92-95, ill. 20 Scheicher, JbKhistWien 61 (1971), 7-46 Related Works: Compositionally similar tapestry (complete version), Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, "The Triumph of Death over Chastity" (GCPA 0237101) ; stylistically similar tapestry, Brussels, Musees Royaux d'Art d'Histoire, "The Triumph of Fame over Death"
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