Brussels, 1729-1745, by Urbanus Leyniers, 1674-1747 and Daniël IV Leyniers, 1705-1770, after designs by Jan van Orley, 1665-1735 and Augustin Coppens, 1668-1740, scene depicting a hunting party organized by King Idomeneus of Salentum, Telemachus at center right is poised to lance the boar that charges at Idomeneus’ daughter Antiope at right, on a fallen horse, dogs attack the boar while the hunting party surround, frame style border with acanthus and stick motif, Brussels mark and “V.LEYNIERS” lower right of scene, 157 × 193 in. 

Provenance: Acquired by Henry Symons of New York, NY; 1922 purchased from Henry Symons by French & Co., New York; 1927 purchased from French & Co. by William Randolph Hearst; 1951 inherited from William Randolph Hearst by the Hearst Foundation, Inc., New York; 1954 gift of the Hearst Foundation, Inc. to the Brooklyn Museum; Property from the Brooklyn Museum.

Exhibition History: Brooklyn Museum, entrance hall display, June 15, 1954.

Publication History:
Devree, Howard, About Art and Artists; Brooklyn Museum Displays 2 Tapestries Presented by Hearst Foundation, New York Times, June 16, 1954: 29.
“Curatorial Departments: Department of Decorative Arts.” Brooklyn Museum Annual Report (1953-1954): 19.
Cavallo, Adolf S. Scenes from the History of Telemachus, Brooklyn Museum Bulletin 17, no. 3 (Spring 1956): 8-12.
Telemachus arrives at temple of Venus (Aphrodite) at Cythera, on island of Cyprus, c. 1724-1728, Study Photographs of Tapestries, catalogued by Adolph S. Cavallo and Thomas P. Campbell, 1914-1995. Getty Research Institute 97.P.7. Original DB ID 1734.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/97p7_306491. (54.4.2a only)
Brosens, Koenraad. A Contextual Study of Brussels Tapestry, 1670-1770: The Dye Works and Tapestry Workshop of Urbanus Leyniers (1674-1747). Brussels: Paleis der Academien, 2004, p. 102-103, 108-109, 169.
Brosens, Koenraad. European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago, edited by Christa C. Mayer Thurman. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2008. p. 327 (note 16).