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 viewClassificationsTextiles
Collections
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."
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."
First quarter of the 16th century
Peter Paul Rubens
Probably third quarter of the 17th century, 1650–75
Jacob Jordaens
Probably third quarter of the 17th century
3rd-4th century AD
First quarter of the 16th century A.D. 1500–25
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