Tapestry illustrating a lion hunt, but it is probably the scene of Hercules fighting the Nemean lion from the Hercules hanging, beautiful cartouche border.
Brussels, end of the 16th/beginning of the 17th century, attributed to the workshop of Frans Geubels and his son Jacques.
Wool and silk, beautiful colours, old restorations, weaknesses in the upper part, a line of restoration in the left part of the tapestry, lower border not of origin
H:3,09-W: 3,72 m
The famous twelve labours of Hercules valued the "virtue" of the man, and were very appreciated from the XVth to the XVIIth century, thus several suites of Hercules coexisted.
Bibliography:
Guy Delmarcel, Flemish Tapestry, 1999
G. Eberhard Cotton, La collection Toms Pauli, Lausanne, 2010, p. 34-35.
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