CU-1566 - Antique Teniers Tapestry
8ft 04in X 8ft 04in
Hand Woven Wool Cotton
Teniers Tapestry David Teniers, the Elder (1582-1649) and David Teniers, the Younger (1610-1690), father and son, both famous masters of the Flemish school of painting, and natives of Antwerp ; the greater genius belonged to the younger, who carried his father’s gift of depicting rural and homely life to a higher pitch of perfection, almost ranking in celebrity with Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony Van Dyck. Through his father, David the younger was indirectly influence of Adrian Brouwer at the outset of his career.
The touch is of the rarest delicacy, his color at once gay and harmonious.
During the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the Brussels workshops produced large numbers of these so-called Teniers Tapestries from cartoons by artists like Jan van Orley and Augustin Coppens. Featuring genre figures in idealized landscapes, they provided a lighthearted contrast to the grander history and mythology tapestries then in vogue for the staterooms of European country houses.
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