Tapestry: Scenes from the Manhood of Christ and from Christian Allegory (from the series The Redemption of Man)
First quarter of the 16th century
Object PlaceBrussels, Flanders
Medium/TechniqueWool warp; wool, silk, and gilt-silver wefts; tapestry weave
Dimensions327 x 364 cm (128 3/4 x 143 5/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of the Hearst Foundation in memory of William Randolph Hearst
Accession number54.1776
On View
Not on viewClassificationsTextiles
Collections
Provenance1877, Duke of Berwick and Alba, Palacio de Liria, Madrid; April 7-20, 1877, Berwick and Alba sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, lot 13 [see note 1], possibly to Baron Frederic Emile d'Erlanger (b. 1832 - d. 1911), Paris [see note 2]. 1922, Duveen Brothers, New York; 1922, sold by Duveen to William Randolph Hearst (b. 1863 - d. 1951), New York; to the Hearst Foundation, New York; 1954, gift of the Hearst Foundation to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 9, 1954)
NOTES:
[1] This was one of six tapestries sold at the time, from a series called Allegorical Subjects from the New Testament. [2] Baron d'Erlanger purchased a number of other tapestries at the Berwick and Alba sale. That the series of which this particular tapestry formed a part was in his collection is according to D. T. B. Wood, "Tapestries of the Seven Deadly Sins--I," Burlington Magazine 20, no. 106 (January, 1912), 215-216, 221. They may be the tapestries mentioned as being in the Erlanger collection by Gaston Le Breton, "Les tapisseries et les broderies anciennes," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 1882, p. 444 (called "moralités évangéliques").
NOTES:
[1] This was one of six tapestries sold at the time, from a series called Allegorical Subjects from the New Testament. [2] Baron d'Erlanger purchased a number of other tapestries at the Berwick and Alba sale. That the series of which this particular tapestry formed a part was in his collection is according to D. T. B. Wood, "Tapestries of the Seven Deadly Sins--I," Burlington Magazine 20, no. 106 (January, 1912), 215-216, 221. They may be the tapestries mentioned as being in the Erlanger collection by Gaston Le Breton, "Les tapisseries et les broderies anciennes," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 1882, p. 444 (called "moralités évangéliques").
Peter Paul Rubens
Probably third quarter of the 17th century, 1650–75
Jacob Jordaens
Probably third quarter of the 17th century
1500–25
3rd-4th century AD
Barberini Manufactory
1663–1679
Barberini Manufactory
1663–1679
Second half of the 16th century or first quarter of the 17th century
First third of the 16th century
Last quarter of the 16th or first half of the 17th century
