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Flemish tapestry - Circa 17th century - Size:L180 x H220
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Reference number: 78J / D362
Origin: Flemish - Oudenaarde
Period: 17th century
Provenance: Private Collection
Composition: Wool and silk
Dimensions: 180 L x 220 H
Tapestry on the Royal Hunts
Tapestry of Flemish origin woven in wool and silk at the beginning of XVIIth century representing a hunting scene in an imaginary forest.
This tapestry belongs to a series of tapestries on royal hunts with concomitant registers on hunting, myths and legends.
Very often, these tapestries were populated with animals as well noble, fantastic and even legendary. Showing thus that the fauna
fantastic fauna lived well in all the regions, even near the houses. These tapestries were propitious to tell stories of
hunting, counts and legends during the evenings. In times when one confused the real and the fabulous, some animals had a particular place in the
a special place in the popular imagination. Our elders knew them well, for having rubbed shoulders with them in our forests, wasn't hunting
hunting was reserved for the princes and the nobility...
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Flemish tapestry - Circa 17th century - Size:L180 x H220