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

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Textiles

c. 1650

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

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artists: Jan van Leefdael (Manufacturer) , Jacob Jordaens
Title: Four Servants, part of Telemachus Leading Theoclymenus to Penelope from The Story of Odysseus
Places: Brussels (Object made in:), Europe (Object made in:)
Date: Made 1640-1660
Medium: Wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave Warp: Count: 8 warps per cm; wool: S-ply of three Z-spun elements; diameter: 0.8–1.0 mm Weft: Count: varies from 17 to 30 wefts per cm; wool: S-ply of two Z-spun elements; diameters: 0.3–1.0 mm; silk: three yarns of S-ply of two Z-twisted elements; diameters: 0.6–1.0 mm; wool and silk: paired yarns of S-ply of two Z-spun wool elements and S-ply of two Z-twisted silk elements; diameters: 0.5–1.2 mm
Inscriptions: Marked and signed: Brussels city mark; I·V·LEEFDAEL
Dimensions: 351.2 × 424.8 cm (138 1/4 × 167 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Charles L. Hutchinson through the Antiquarian Society
Reference Number: 1890.8
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George Leland Hunter, Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Eighteenth-Century and Modern American Tapestries, exh. cat. (Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1914), 121.
The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago: The First One Hundred Years, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1977). 245, 187 (ill.).
Kristi Nelson, Jacob Jordaens: Design for Tapestry, Pictura Nova 5 (Brepols, 1998), 81–82, 83, 262, pl. 34..
Christa C. Mayer Thurman and Koenraad Brosens, “Flemish Tapestries in the Collection of The Art Institute of Chicago.” In Flemish Tapestry in European and American Collections: Studies in Honour of Guy Delmarcel, ed. Koenraad Brosens, 171-184, cat. 18 (ill.).
Koenraad Brosens, ed., Christa C. Mayer Thurman, gen. ed., European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat., [exhibition: “The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago”] (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2008) 133-137, cat. 18 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society of The Art Institute of Chicago: The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–June 19, 1977.
Art Institute of Chicago, Regenstein Hall, The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestry, Nov. 1, 2008–Jan. 4, 2009.

An unidentified Italian family, Rome, to 1890; sold to the Art Institute, with Rodolfo Amadeo Lanciani acting as agent, 1890.

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