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Tapestry (possibly a fragment from an altar frontal): Adoration of the Magi

Tapestry (possibly a fragment from an altar frontal): Adoration of the Magi

1475–1500
Object PlacePossibly Brussels, Flanders
Medium/TechniqueWool warp; wool, silk and metal-wrapped wefts; tapestry weave
Dimensions119.5 x 130.5 cm (47 1/16 x 51 3/8 in.)
Credit LineCharles Potter Kling Fund
Accession number49.505
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsTextiles
ProvenanceEmile Gaillard (b. 1821 - d. 1902), Paris; by descent to his widow, Amelie Vassal Gaillard, Paris; May 15-17, 1916, posthumous Mme. Gaillard sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, lot 189. November 28, 1919, sent by Duveen Bros., Paris to Duveen Bros., New York (stock no. 27307); August 1, 1921, sold by Duveen to Clarence H. Mackay (b. 1874 - d. 1938), Roslyn, NY [see note 1]; 1939, Mackay estate consigned for sale to Jacques Seligmann and Co., New York; 1940, sold by Seligmann to A. M. Adler (dealer; b. 1902 - d. 1985), New York, probably for Frederic Goldstein Oppenheimer (b. 1881 - d. 1963), San Antonio [see note 2]; 1949, consigned by Oppenheimer, through A. M. Adler, to Raphael Stora, New York (stock no. C-108-23); 1949, sold by Stora to the MFA for $7500. (Accession Date: June 9, 1949)

NOTES:
[1] Duveen Bros. Records, Getty Research Institute, Business Records: Series I.A, New York House, Stock Book 1921 (Box 15) and Series II.I., Collectors' Files, Mackay, H. 1 (Box 481). [2] Archives of American Art, Jacques Seligmann and Co. Records, Clarence H. Mackay Collection, Box 235, folder 1, Adler, A. M. Adler helped Dr. Oppenheimer build his collection of medieval art.