Fortune-teller. Teniers, David II (Flemish, 1610-1690) (designed after) [painter] Hecke, Peter van den (Flemish, ) (workshop, attr.) [weaver] c. 1700-1750 Tapestry Dimensions: H 9'5" x W 10' Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Brussels Ownership History: French & Co. purchased from Henri Azria 3/10/1962; sold to American Foreign Trade Development 5/22/1964. In landscape, gypsy telling fortune of elderly man, while young boy clings to his leg; seated woman nursing child (R, foreground); woman holding jug & basket walking towards stream (L, foregr
Fortune-teller. Teniers, David II (Flemish, 1610-1690) (designed after) [painter] Hecke, Peter van den (Flemish, ) (workshop, attr.) [weaver] c. 1700-1750 Tapestry Dimensions: H 9'5" x W 10' Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Brussels Ownership History: French & Co. purchased from Henri Azria 3/10/1962; sold to American Foreign Trade Development 5/22/1964. In landscape, gypsy telling fortune of elderly man, while young boy clings to his leg; seated woman nursing child (R, foreground); woman holding jug & basket walking towards stream (L, foreground); landscape with stone bridge (background) French & Co. stock sheet in archive, E-387 Delmarcel, Flemish Tapestry (1999), 352-361, Marillier, English Tapestries (1930), 42, pl. 24a Related Works: Compositionally similar tapestries, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Ref. BK-NM-119A "Gypsies" (shorter compositionally; with borders); also see Marillier, pl. 42a
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