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British & Continental Auction | December 6, 2024

Fri, Dec 6, 2024 10:00AM EST
Lot 1543

Dutch 'Game Park with Fantastical Animals' Wool Tapestry

Estimate: $30,000 - $50,000

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Netherlands, late 16th century, likely a fragment of a larger panel, landscape game park scene with a foreground of real and fantastical animals, including a griffin, parrots, dragon, and a hare, background river or sea, with men, dogs, and horses engaged in a stag hunt, bridge, a boat, and a structure on an island, hunt or battle scene with men on horses and dogs, fallen man in the center holds a shield, narrow border of yellow and black wool, 87 x 106 in. (7 ft. 3 in. x 8 ft. 10 in.)

Provenance: Probably acquired in New York, NY in the 1920s by Warren J. Smadbeck of New York; 
1965, inherited from Warren J. Smadbeck by Violeta Rodriguez Smadbeck (Mrs. Warren J. Smadbeck) of New York; 
1998, gift of Violeta Rodriguez Smadbeck to the Brooklyn Museum;
Property from the Brooklyn Museum

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Probably acquired in New York, NY in the 1920s by Warren J. Smadbeck of New York; 
1965, inherited from Warren J. Smadbeck by Violeta Rodriguez Smadbeck (Mrs. Warren J. Smadbeck) of New York; 
1998, gift of Violeta Rodriguez Smadbeck to the Brooklyn Museum;
Property from the Brooklyn Museum

overall fading and toning, minor separations throughout, surface losses and scattered probable restorations throughout, border likely added during modern conservation treatment, no lining