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Tapestry: Christ Before Pilate and Herod, from the series THE PASSION OF CHRIST
Tapestry: Christ Before Pilate and Herod, from the series THE PASSION OF CHRIST

Tapestry: Christ Before Pilate and Herod, from the series THE PASSION OF CHRIST

late 15th century
Object PlaceFlanders
Medium/TechniqueTapestry weave (wool warp; wool and some silk wefts)
Dimensions417.2 x 901.7 cm (164.25 x 355 in.)
Credit LineGift of Robert Treat Paine, 2nd, in memory of his son, Walter Cabot Paine
Accession number29.1046
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsTextiles
ProvenanceLionel Sackville-West, 2nd Baron Sackville (b. 1827 - d. 1908), Knole House, Kent [see note 1]; to his daughter, Victoria Sackville-West (b. 1862 - d. 1936) and her husband, Lionel Sackville-West, 3rd Baron Sackville (b. 1867 - d. 1928), Knole; 1929, sold from the Sackville-West collection to Robert Treat Paine, II (b. 1861 - d. 1943), Boston; 1929, gift of Robert Treat Paine to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 3, 1929)

NOTES:
[1] Lionel Sackville-West, Knole House: Its State Rooms, Pictures, and Antiquities (Sevenoaks, 1906), p. 54, colorpl. According to family tradition, the tapestry was acquired in the sixteenth century by Archbishop Warham or his successor, Archbishop Cranmer, for the chapel at Knole