1974.29: Boy watering his Horse in a Landscape
Textile Arts
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1974.29
- People
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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
- Permissions
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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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