TAPESTRY, tapestry weave. Flemish "Kermess". 345,5 x 332,5 cm. Flanders, probably Brussels, around 1700.
From a series of four tapestries: "L'homme qui pisse". Probably by Jacob van der Borcht. A Flemish village feast after David Teniers the Younger. A polychrome scene with in the foreground children and a dog as well as a large number of eating, drinking and flirting farmers and peasant women around two tables. At the back a tavern and other houses as well as trees. A flag fluttering from the attic window of the tavern depicts Saint George, the patron saint of agricultural workers. A border in the shape of a baroque frame in blue and golden nuances. Wool and silk. Lined.
Probably reduced. Some wear, slightly dirty, minor stains, damages and repairs, rewoven areas, some painted areas. Parts of the border are later.
Provenance
The Bank Director and Collector Osborn Kling; Doktor Rumqvist.
Literature
Svenska Hem i ord och bilder, Red. Albin Roosval, Stockholm 1934, Ernst Malmberg: Bankdirektör och fru Osborn Klings hem, Ulrikagatan 11, Stockholm, text page 111-132, planscher page 118-119; Bukowskis' auction 25 and 26 September 1934: the Bank Director Osborn Kling's Collection, No 151, plate page 21.
Compare with Village Fete (Saint George's Fair), the exhibition The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestries, The Art Institute of Chicago and Regenstein Hall 2008-2009.
Compare with Christie's Sale 6639 # 205, 14 November 2002, King Street, London.
More information
Tapestries from this series belong to some museum collections. Compare with the painting "Flemish Kermess" by David Teniers the Younger, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels.