Prudence. Coxie, Michiel (the Elder) (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, 1499-1592) (designed after, attr.) [painter] Guebels, François (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1560-1570 Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Brussels Ownership History: Austria, Vienna, Vienna, Sammlung für Plastik und Kunstgewerbe. Inscriptions: Inscription identifying figures in central field [some include]: THAMAR (Tamar) Inscriptions: Inscriptions identifying border figures: IN PRVDENTIA (Imprudence), AGNOMI (Dishonor ?) Details, m
Prudence. Coxie, Michiel (the Elder) (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, 1499-1592) (designed after, attr.) [painter] Guebels, François (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1560-1570 Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Brussels Ownership History: Austria, Vienna, Vienna, Sammlung für Plastik und Kunstgewerbe. Inscriptions: Inscription identifying figures in central field [some include]: THAMAR (Tamar) Inscriptions: Inscriptions identifying border figures: IN PRVDENTIA (Imprudence), AGNOMI (Dishonor ?) Details, man kneels on ground with large jug before couple (L, middle ground); group of men with spears stand nearby, cityscape (center, background); Tamar [with inscription] with tokens [signet, bracelets & staff] from Judah (center); man holds kid (L, background); border figure of Imprudence; 2 border figures representing Dishonor (?) [Agnomi]; figure of Prudence holding mirror & sits on dragon (center, foreground), 2 men, 1 sounds trumpet (L, middle ground), men at combat (R, middle ground), landscape with castle (center); group of soldiers on foot & horseback at combat (foreground), Abigail bringing food to David & his men (center, middle ground), Abigail brought before David to become his wife [or, Esther before Ahasuerus (Xerxes/Artaxerxes) (center, background); Ruth threshing grain she has gleaned in field of Boaz (center, foreground), group of soldiers on foot & horseback at combat (center, middle ground), Abigail bringing food to David & his men (center, background) (BRD) strapwork & garlands of flowers & fruit, vignette scenes with figures of Virtues & Vices with inscriptions Photographs of tapestry represent details; there is no view of the full tapestry panel. Schneebalg-Perelman, Neuf preux & les sept vertus (1974), 201-227 Göbel, Wandteppiche I:1 (1923), 115 Thomson, History of Tapestry (1930), 205 Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0238406-0238429
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