Tapestry (Four Servants)

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Textiles

c. 1650

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

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artists: Jan van Leefdael (Manufacturer) , Jacob Jordaens
Title: Tapestry (Four Servants), Tapestry Girl Offering Gifts, part of Telemachus Leading Theoclymenus to Penelope, from The Story of Odysseus
Places: Flanders (Object made in), Brussels (Object made in), Europe (Object made in)
Date: Made 1640-1660
Medium: Wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave
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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John W. Keefe, et. al., 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.).
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.
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.

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.

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