18th Apr, 2018 11:00

The Principal Contents of North Mymms Park - Two-Day Sale - DAY TWO

 
  Lot 312
 

312

Lots 312 and 313 Two important Brussels tapestries from the 'History of Venus' series

Lots 312 and 313
Two important Brussels tapestries from the 'History of Venus' series, in well preserved colours, within broad naturalistic borders woven with animals, bunches of fruit, birds and flowers.

A Brussel mythological tapestry,
The Story of Venus: Venus disclosing to Diomedes the conduct of his wife Aegialia,
probably mid-16th century, after Bernard van Orley, possibly from the workshop of Guasparo di Bartolommeo Papini after Alessandro Allori,
300 x 650cm approximately

Panel VI of the Madrid set corresponds to the present tapestry, but without the figure of the fallen warrior with Venus(?) standing behind him to the right. ('In the Madrid example the right hand portion has been cut away so that Cupid is aiming at a purely conjectural target', Country Life, 20 January, 1934, North Mymms Park: II). It also has a more detailed landscape background and lacks the figures of mermen riding on sea monsters. The title now given to this tapestry is the same as that given to the example in Madrid. This is also illustrated in 'Gobel Wandteppiche', Leipzig, 1923, Part I, Vol. II, abb.98.

Sold for £64,000


Condition Report
Blue edging has brown stains and discolouration.
Fading, discolouration, colour loss, stitched repairs.
Signed in right corner and inscribe by the elephant rider.
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Auction: The Principal Contents of North Mymms Park - Two-Day Sale - DAY TWO, 18th Apr, 2018

To be sold at the Stansted Mountfitchet Auction Rooms

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