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Art market highlights

>> Sotheby's New York, 19.05.2006 (French Furniture).
About 17 French (mostly Aubusson) and Flemish tapestries

>> Christie's New York, 21.10.2005.
Story of Titus and Vespasian (Brussels, Peemans; after Poerson)
Saturn/Winter from the Portières des Dieux (Gobelins, Lefebure)
Appolo and Daphne from Ovid's Metamorphoses (Gobelins)
and more

>> Christie's New York, 17/18.05.2005.
Chinoiserie Tapestries (Aubusson; after Boucher; 7 pieces from The Springfield Museum)
Story of Titus and Vespasian (Brussels, Le Clerc; after Poerson)
Judgement of Paris (Florence; Medici coat-of-arms, covering the original coat-of-arms shwoing the union between the Medici and Cappello families)
and more

>> Sotheby's London, “Haute Epoque. Important early furniture and tapestry”, 28.10.2004. More than 20 tapestries, among which:
Presentation in the Temple (Brussels, ca. 1520; inspired by a Dürer engraving)
Abduction of the Sabine Women (Brussels, ca. 1550; with arms of Johann Georg, Elector of Brandenburg and his wife)
Crossing the Red Sea (Antwerp, late 17th c., design by Abraham van Diepenbeeck [erroneously attributed to Brussels in the catalogue])
Life of Cleopatra (Delft, first half 17th c.; after Karel II van Mander)
Scene of Gentle Life (Bruges, 1664; belongs to the same set as the Harvest (Brussels, Royal Museums of Art & History)
Petite Chasse et Verdure (Beauvais, ca. 1700)

>> Grimaldi armorial tapestry (Brussels) bearing an unidentified Brussels weaver's mark. A similar tapestry is in Brussels, Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis.
For sale at Christie's London, 21.10.2004.

>> Millefleurs with rabbits and dogs (Flemish, ca. 1480).
On show at the XXIIe Biennale des Antiquaires, Paris (15-28.09.2004). (Franses)

>> La bataille d'Arbelles (Gobelins) and Les astronomes (Beauvais).
On show at the XXIIe Biennale des Antiquaires, Paris (15-28.09.2004). (Galerie Chevalier)

Stolen Tapestries

>> Story of Tobit and Tobias, The Stolen Goat, Brussels, 245 x 320 cm.
This tapestry was stolen on 29/30.9.2006 in the Netherlands, Raadhuis van Heemstede, near Haarlem.
For photographs, see:
www.avro.nl/tv/programmas_a-z/opsporing_verzocht

>> Teniers, Peasants Drinking and Dancing in Front of an Inn, Brussels, 290 x 250 cm.
This tapestry was stolen on 29/30.6.2004 in France; see La Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot, 9.7.2004: 78.

Tapestry conservation and restoration

Bayerisches nationalmuseum
Textilrestaurierung, Prinzregentenstr. 3, 80538 München, Germany
tel. 00498921124257; 00491733901735 / fax 00498921124210
Brutillot, André (Selective bibliography)
>> Conservation de la suite La Vie de Saint Paul d´après Pieter Coecke van Aelst, manufacture bruxelloise, ca. 1550.
>> Conservation de quatre pièces de la suite de L´Histoire de David et Betsabée de l´atelier de Pieter van Aelst (Château de Sigmaringen). >> Conservation de quatre pièces de la suite Die Taten Ottos von Wittelsbach d´après Peter Candid, manufacture Hans van der Biest, Munich début du 17ième siècle.

De Wit, Royal Manufacturers of Tapestry
Refuge of the Tongerlo Abbey, Schoutetstraat 7, 2800 Mechelen, Belgium
tel. 00/32/15/20.29.05 / fax 00/32/15/20.48.88
Yvan Maes (Selective bibliography)
>> Conservation, cleaning by suction of aerosol, lining and other services concerning the conservation of tapestries.

Chevalier Conservation
6-8 rue Lépine Marcel, 92700 Colombes
tel. 01 47 88 83 36 / 01 47 88 41 41 / fax 01 47 88 64 52

Royal Institute for the study and conservation of Belgium's artistic heritage (IRPA/KIK), Brussels
Parc du Cinquantenaire 1, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Vera Vereecken
Currently [posted January 2005]:
>> Télémaque à la chasse au sanglier avec Antiope, fille d'Idoménée (Bruxelles, deuxième moitié 18e siècle, atelier de Daniël Leyniers, carton de Jean van Orley); Gouvernement Provincial de Liège.
>> Embriaguesa de Noé (Bruxelles, 1567, atelier de Wilhelm de Pannemaeker, carton de Michel Coxcie); Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona.
>> El Matrimoni de Mestra (Bruxelles, ca. 1515-1528; carton de Jan Van Roome); Museu Capitular de Lleida.

Tapestries cvba
Koningin Astridlaan 62, Bonheiden (Belgium)
Juliette De boeck (Selective bibliography)
Currently [posted January 2005]:
>> Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van de Zavel (Brussels); Museum Het Broodhuis (Brussels).

Databases

Base Palissy (France)

Getty Photo Study Collection

KIK/IRPA (Belgium)

Journals

Studies in the Decorative Arts

The Burlington Magazine

Filo Forme (with tapestry bibliography by Lucia Meoni)

Hali