About This Artwork

After a design by Jacob Jordaens (1593–1678)
Woven at the workshop of Jan van Leefdael (1603–1668)
Flanders, Brussels

Four Servants, part of Telemachus Leading Theoclymenus to Penelope, from The Story of Odysseus, c. 1650

Wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave
351.2 x 424.8 cm (138 1/4 x 167 1/4 in.)
Gift of Charles L. Singer through the Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1890.8