Lot 84
  • 84

A Brussels tapestry Panel of the Fish Market, attributed to J. de Vos, after David II Teniers early 18th century

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Late 17th Century
  • 7 ft. 10 1/2 in. by 11 ft. 3 in.; 2.4 m. by 3.4 m.

Provenance

French & Company, New York, 1974

Condition

Old lining with metal loops. Reduced. Entire right side and corners of border rewoven. Restoration throughout cream colored silk areas and other patches of restoration throughout panel. Good color of the whole palette with some fading.
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Catalogue Note

The present weaving relates to the second version of De Vos’s Fish Quay scene, known as the Fish Market. The architecture, the boats and several of the figures vary from the earlier versions; De Vos was known to have altered the compositions.  Judocus de Vos (1661-1734) was from an established  Brussels weaving family and is thought to have obtained the ‘Teniers’ cartoons from the weavers Jacob van de Borcht and Le Clerc. A nearly identical tapestry is in Burley-on-the-Hill in Rutland and includes a border with coat of arms (Marillier, op. cit.)

 

RELATED LITERATURE
C. Marillier, Handbook to the Teniers Tapestries, London, 1932, p. 16-17,   pl. 10