Lot 411
  • 411

A Flemish tapestry depicting 'The Vegetable Market', woven in the workshop of Urbanus (1674-1747) and Daniel II Leyniers (1669-1728 ), after designs by David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690) second quarter 18th century, Brussels

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • wool
  • height 137 in., width 210 1/2 in.
  • 348 cm, 535 cm
Brussels town mark in center of bottom selvage and weaver's signature in lower right corner of panel: V.LEYNIERS.D.L

Provenance

Dario Boccara, Paris
Private Collection, Quito, acquired from the above
Thence by descent to the present owner

Exhibited

Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Les fastes de la tapisserie, August 28, 1984 - September 30, 1984

Literature

Tokyo National Museum, Les fastes de la tapisserie, Tokyo, 1984, cat. 24

Condition

Lined, with velcro on 3 sides. Very good colors of the whole palette. Minor fading. Restorations throughout, particularly in light colored silks. Minor patching in lower left edge. Some restorations in selvage. Some water stains in left side of sky area, to the right of red canopy, and area around obelisk. Splits and open warps in sky and other cream colored silk areas. Would benefit from some attention, but could be hung as is. Beautiful quality.
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Catalogue Note

The tapestries generally known as 'Teniers' tapestries, depicting pastoral and genre scenes of peasant life after the paintings of the artist David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690), were immensely popular in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.  While the majority of the 'Teniers' tapestries were woven in Brussels, other pieces were woven in Lille, Oudenaarde, Antwerp, Beauvais, Aubusson, Madrid and London.   Although very few compositions relate directly to actual paintings of Teniers, a core group of subjects after his designs were the most popularly woven, and included  `The Fish Quay', `Return from the Harvest', `Gipsy Fortune Teller', `Sportsmen Resting', 'The Village FĂȘte' (or `The Kermesse'), and the scene shown in the present tapestry, `The Vegetable Market'.

RELATED LITERATURE

H. C. Marillier, Handbook to the Teniers Tapestries, Oxford, 1932, pl. 30