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A Beauvais Pastoral Tapestry of 'the game of bowls' after a design by David Teniers the Younger circa 1680
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8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description
- height 8 ft. 3 in.; width 9 ft. 3 in.
- 2.5 m; 2.8m
depicting a genre scene with figures playing bowls outside an inn.
Catalogue Note
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
H.C. Marillier, Handbook to the Teniers Tapestries, London, 1932.
The paintings of peasant scenes by David Teniers, so popular in the Netherlands and used for cartoons for Flemish tapestries, were later copied by the weavers in Beauvais and Aubusson. See plate 64 in Marillier (op.cit.) for the same composition of the game of bowls seen in the present weaving.