Panel of fine tapestry of Brussels. turned... - Lot 29 - FEE - Stanislas Machoïr

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Panel of fine tapestry of Brussels. turned... - Lot 29 - FEE - Stanislas Machoïr
Panel of fine tapestry of Brussels. turned (Flanders) end of XVI°. In silk and wool - of the mythological theme on the story of the Goddess Diana, and - of the Aurochs hunting theme, to be compared with the Brussels panel reproduced in "European Tapestry in the Institute of Chicago" by Koenraad Brosens, p. 118/119, Yale University Press, 2008; to be compared with the series of hangings on hunting from the workshops of Philippe van Der Cammen in Enghien (Belgium), from the Louis-Philippe estate (Orléans family), and kept in the collections of the Château de Brissac (France). Height: 240 cm; Width: 220 cm. Maintenance restorations Here we can observe, on the right, in the foreground the mythological theme representing the Goddess Diana in the company of a nymph, perhaps Sylvia, inspired by the novel Aminta by Le Tasse (Italian author, 1544-1595). On the far left is a noble hunter, armed with a rifle, probably the Archduke of Austria Albert of Brussels (1559-1621) accompanied by a wolf cub, above on the left in the undergrowth of the flappers, in the centre of the panel also of the flappers, Dogs and pickets fighting against an auroch that charges them, above, further in the perspective, espalier gardens, Italian style, precede what seems to be an abbey and far away from the snowy mountains. Mythological Theme Diana is the daughter of Latona (Leto) and Jupiter, twin sister of Apollo, born on the island of Ortigia, later called Delos. She was born a few moments before her brother. Witnessing her maternal pains, she conceived such an aversion to marriage that she asked and obtained from her father the grace to keep a perpetual virginity like her sister Minerva (Athena). It is for this reason that these two goddesses received from the oracle of Apollo the name of White Virgins. Jupiter himself armed her with bow and arrows, and the
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