Tapestry: Thetis and Achilles Before the Oracle
(from the series THE STORY OF ACHILLES)
Jacob Jordaens
(Flemish, 17th Century)
Probably third quarter of the 17th century
Object PlaceBrussels, Flanders
Medium/TechniqueTapestry weave (wool warp; wool, silk and gilt(?) silver wefts)
Dimensions413 x 465 cm (162 5/8 x 183 1/16 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Mrs. Harriet J. Bradbury
Accession number30.484
On View
Not on viewClassificationsTextiles
Collections
ProvenanceSaid to have come from "a royal house" [see note 1]. About 1884/1889, purchased in Munich by Charles Mather Ffoulke (b. 1841 - d. 1909), Washington, DC; 1909, consigned for sale from the Ffoulke collection to French and Company, New York [see note 2]; by 1913, sold by French and Co. to George Robert White (b. 1847 - d. 1922), Boston; by inheritance from White to his sister, Harriet J. White (Mrs. Frederick T.) Bradbury (b. 1851 - d. 1930), Boston; 1930, bequest of Harriet J. Bradbury to the MFA. (Accession Date: July 3, 1930)
NOTES: [1] Early provenance taken from unpublished letters of Charles Mather Ffoulke. [2] Ffoulke acquired most of his extensive tapestry collection in Europe between 1884 and 1889. He lent the Achilles tapestries (MFA accession nos. 30.483-484) to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1896 (A Collection of Tapestries Lent by Charles M. Ffoulke, cat. nos. 31-32) and they were sold by French and Co. after his death. They were on loan to the MFA by 1913; see The Ffoulke Collection of Tapestries (New York, 1913), pp. 128-131.
NOTES: [1] Early provenance taken from unpublished letters of Charles Mather Ffoulke. [2] Ffoulke acquired most of his extensive tapestry collection in Europe between 1884 and 1889. He lent the Achilles tapestries (MFA accession nos. 30.483-484) to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1896 (A Collection of Tapestries Lent by Charles M. Ffoulke, cat. nos. 31-32) and they were sold by French and Co. after his death. They were on loan to the MFA by 1913; see The Ffoulke Collection of Tapestries (New York, 1913), pp. 128-131.
First quarter of the 16th century
Peter Paul Rubens
Probably third quarter of the 17th century, 1650–75
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
