St. Veronica with her veil with image of Christ ('Sudarium') healing emperor Vespasian (Tiberius). unknown c. 1510 Tapestry Dimensions: H x W m Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk; metallic thread (gold); metallic thread (silver) Culture: Southern Netherlands Ownership History: Sackville de Knole, Sevenoaks, Kent, England. Jacques Seligmann & fils, Paris. J. Pierpont Mogran coll., New York. French & Co. purchased from J. P. Morgan 8/15/1916; sold to Philip Lehman 4/11/1916. United States, New York, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accno. Inscriptions: Ins
St. Veronica with her veil with image of Christ ('Sudarium') healing emperor Vespasian (Tiberius). unknown c. 1510 Tapestry Dimensions: H x W m Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool & silk; metallic thread (gold); metallic thread (silver) Culture: Southern Netherlands Ownership History: Sackville de Knole, Sevenoaks, Kent, England. Jacques Seligmann & fils, Paris. J. Pierpont Mogran coll., New York. French & Co. purchased from J. P. Morgan 8/15/1916; sold to Philip Lehman 4/11/1916. United States, New York, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accno. Inscriptions: Inscription in central field, at bottom of veil [visible in GCPA: 0239492 & 0239493: IHESVS NAZARENA Inscriptions: Inscription in central field, below figure of Vespasian [seen only in GCPA: 0239490, 0239491, 0239494, 0239495]: VEZZPEIANVS In bedchamber, Vespasian kneels before St. Veronica, holding up veil, curing him from leprosy; several figures look on, including men holding large tapers (BRD) vines of flowers interspersed with birds & bunches of grapes Possibly woven in Brussels. French & Co. stock sheet in archive, 7002 Mayer-Thurman, Lehman Collection (2001), 3-7, Ricci, Twenty Renaissance Tapestries (1913), 18,19,
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