Origin : France-Atelier de la Marche

Period : end of 16 th century

Provenance :Private Collection

Composition: Wool and silk

Dimension: 2.60 L x 2.75 H

Tapestry woven in wool and silk at the end of the 16th century "Scene of rabbit hunting" and framed by a border of fruits and flowers with birds and rabbits.

Hunting is one of the social markers that distinguished the nobility. From the example of the Guise in the 16th century, Marjorie Meiss-Even (Lille-III) reconstructs the imagination of the hunting passion: from the noble prey par excellence that is the stag to the choice of hounds, white dogs even more than greyhounds, mastiffs, braques and spaniels. Hunting is a sign of power, and killing is not conceivable without staging. Hunting with canvas - sections of heavy canvas are deployed over hundreds of metres through the forest to limit the game's run to the rush - makes it possible to make death a spectacle worthy of the society that organises it.

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