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The Just Verdict of Trajan
The Just Verdict of Trajan

The Just Verdict of Trajan

1500–25
Object PlaceBrussels, Flanders
Medium/TechniqueWool warp; wool, silk, and gilt-silver wefts; tapestry
Dimensions327 x 359 cm (128 3/4 x 141 5/16 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Mrs. Harriet J. Bradbury
Accession number30.477
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsTextiles
ProvenanceLionel Sackville-West, 2nd Baron Sackville (b. 1827 - d. 1908), Knole House, Kent; to his daughter, Victoria Sackville-West (b. 1862 - d. 1936), Knole [see note 1]; 1912, sold from the Sackville-West collection, through Jacques Seligmann et Fils, Paris, to J. Pierpont Morgan (b. 1837 - d. 1913), New York [see note 2]; August 15, 1916, sold from the Morgan collection to French and Company, New York; 1916, sold by French and Co. to George Robert White (b. 1847 - d. 1922), Boston [see note 3]; 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] Described as "Miracle of the Two Children" in the article "One of Only Four Collections of Gothic Tapestries in the World," Lotus Magazine, 1912, p. 57, and other press accounts of the sale of the Knole tapestries. [2] In 1912, J. Pierpont Morgan purchased a group of tapestries from Knole House and lent them to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. On their sale, see Germain Seligman, Merchants of Art: 1880-1960 (New York, 1961), pp. 46-47. [3] Study Collection of Photographs of Tapestries, Photo Archive Database online, Getty Research Institute, no. 144244. Lent to the MFA in 1916 as "Miracles of St. Claudius."