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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1974.29
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Boy watering his Horse in a Landscape
Classification
Textile Arts
Work Type
tapestry
Date
late 17th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Belgium, Oudenaarde
Culture
Flemish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/214764

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Textile fibers
Dimensions
307.3 x 251.5 cm (121 x 99 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Francis Calley Gray
Accession Year
1974
Object Number
1974.29
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Baroque "verdure" tapestry depicting a boy watering his horse before a waterfall within a dense landscape. With its vertical tangle of trees and low horizon line, this panel is a typical "Bosschage", or forest scene.

Publication History

  • Ingrid de Meuter and Martine Vanwelden, Oudenaardse Wandtapijten van de 16de tot de 18de eeuw. (Tielt, 1999), pp.100-101
  • Tapisserien Wandteppiche aus den staatlichen Schlössern Baden-Württembergs (Weinheim, 2002), p. 70

Verification Level

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