335.3 x 317.5 cm (11 ft. x 10 ft. 5 in)


PROVENANCE
Sotheby`s, New York, October 22, 2014, lot 206 (illustrated on the inside front cover double-page spread of the printed catalogue for the sale)

RELATED LITERATURE
Guy Delmarcel, Flemish Tapestry, New York, 2000, pp. 260-261, 263

LOT NOTES
An identical tapestry is in the collection of the Kulturhistorisches Museum in Magdeburg, inv. no. Te 136(R) (Sabine Schwarz, Gewebte Kunst aus Flandern. Vier historische Tapisserien aus der Textilsammlung des Kulturhistorischen Museums Magdeburg (Magdeburger Museumshefte 8), Magdeburg, 1988, 48-54). The catalogue note to the Sotheby`s description notes four of the six recorded episodes from this series that are known to have survived: the Triumphal Procession, the Banquet, the Sacrifice by Perseus, and the present subject.

depicting Perseus Fighting Phineas or Polydectes, probably after a design by Pieter Ykens; border with trophies, scrolling, fruiting, and flowering foliage on a brown ground;