The writer cutting his pen Rare tapestry in the... Lot 37

The writer cutting his pen Rare tapestry in the point of Savonnerie after Gérard Dou, end of the XVII th-beginning of the XVIII th century Polychrome wool weaving representing a man in interior dress sharpening his pen. 32 x 28 cm. Wooden frame and gilded stucco in Regency style. Bibliography: Die Kurkolnishe Savonneriemanufaktur (1715-1798), S. Dreczko, Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhems-Universität zu Bonn, Bonn 1978. n° 30 p. 123. Provenance: this is the copy studied and reproduced by S. Dreczko in this reference study and described as sold in 1762 in the sale of Kurfurst Clemence's property under n° 602, inventoried in the Hanover museum in 1913 and then lost.