Lot n° 78
Estimation :
20000 - 30000
EUR
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Result
: 70 000EUR
Exceptional, very important and fine tapestry of the Animal - Lot 78
Exceptional, very important and fine tapestry of the Animal Fighting or Pugnae Ferarum hanging, attributed to the Jan Raes' studio in Enghien, Flanders.
Fight of a horse and a lion
Wool and silk. Circa 1600.
H.: 342 cm, W.: 507 cm
Technical characteristics:
Remarkable fineness, silk, silver threads (princely commission) and wool
Beautiful freshness of colours and remarkable state of preservation
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This superb panoramic tapestry belongs to a small group of works called 'Animal Parks', some of which depict scenes of fighting between wild animals. The combative versions of these tapestries, known as 'Pugnae Ferarum' ('Combat of the Wild Animals'), and the examples of the 'Wild Parks', were inspired by the southern Netherlands in the 16th century. The painted landscapes of Gillis I by Coninckxloo and Hans Vredeman de Vries harmoniously integrate a wide variety of fantastic and real animals.
Highly decorative, our tapestry corresponds, iconographically and stylistically, to the famous 16th-century Brussels hangings of Wawel Castle in Krakow, designed by Pieter Coecke van Aelst of Antwerp, and to the wild animal hanging from the Borromeo collection on Isola Bella on Lake Maggiore attributed to Willem Tons of Brussels and dated around 1565.
This fresh-looking tapestry depicts a lion with a golden mane and a pommel horse. These two powerful forms, creating a focal point that catches the viewer's eye, are set in a rich scene of wooded greenery filled with an abundance of animals and birds, including peacocks, pheasants, cranes, ducks, snakes and mouse-like creatures nesting in the undergrowth. The extraordinary variety of creatures interact in a landscape of lush vegetation, castles, towers and mountains of the Ardennes in perspective.
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