Tapestry: Vertumnus as a Haymaker

Jan Raes

Jan Cornelisz.

first half, 17th century

Object PlaceBrussels, Flanders

Medium/TechniqueTapestry; wool warp, wool and silk wefts

Dimensions528 x 343 cm (207 7/8 x 135 1/16 in.)

Credit LineGift of Mrs. William Dexter in memory of her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Bayard Thayer

Accession number67.347

On View

Not on view

ClassificationsTextiles

Collections

Textiles and Fashion Arts

Provenance1889, sold from the Barberini collection, Rome, to Charles M. Ffoulke (b. 1841 - d. 1909), Washington, DC; 1909, consigned for sale from the Ffoulke collection to French and Company, New York; by 1913, probably sold by French and Co. to Bayard Thayer (b. 1862 - d. 1916) and Ruth Simpkins Thayer (b. 1864 - d. 1941), Boston; to their daughter, Constance Van Rensselaer Thayer (Mrs. William) Dexter (b. 1900 - d. 1976), Boston; 1967, gift of Mrs. William Dexter to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 8, 1967)

NOTES: Ffoulke's tapestry collection was sold by French and Co. after his death. The two Vertumnus tapestries (MFA accession nos. 67.347-348) were in the Thayer collection by 1913; see The Ffoulke Collection of Tapestries (New York, 1913), pp. 49-50.