The Resurrection from The Allegory of the Redemption of Man

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Textiles

c. 1500-1510

Southern Netherlands, possibly Brussels

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Department: Textiles

Title: The Resurrection from The Allegory of the Redemption of Man
Places: Flanders (Object made in:), Brussels (Object made in:)
Date: Made 1490-1520
Medium: Wool and silk; slit, dovetailed, and double interlocking tapestry weave Warp: Count: 7 warps per cm; wool: S-ply of three Z-spun elements; diameters: 0.7–1.0 mm Weft: Count: varies from 22 to 34 wefts per cm; wool : S-ply of two Z-spun elements; diameters: 0.3–1.0 mm; silk: S-ply of two Z-twisted elements; pairs of S-ply of two Z-twisted elements; diameters: 0.3–1.1 mm
Inscriptions: Ecce·rex·tuus·venit·tibi·zachare·ix; Vivicabit·nos·post·duos·dies·ozee·vi (Behold, thy king cometh unto thee, Zechariah IX; After two days will he revive us, Hosea VI)
Dimensions: 621.3 × 408.6 cm (244 5/8 × 160 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Chauncey McCormick, Mrs. Richard Ely Danielson and William Deering Howe
Reference Number: 1946.47
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H.-F. Keuller and A.-J. Wauters, Les tapisseries historiees a L’Exposition nationale belge de 1880 (F. Hayez, 1881).
D.T.B. Wood, “Tapestries of The Seven Deadly Sins, I,” The Burlingon Magazine, XX, no. 106 (Jan. 1912): 216-217 (ill.).
D.T.B. Wood, “Tapestries of The Seven Deadly Sins, II,” The Burlingon Magazine, XX, no. 107 (Feb. 1912): 277-289 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin XLII, no. 2 (Feb. 1948): cover (detail ill.).
Adolph S. Cavallo, “The Redemption of Man: A Christian Allegroy Tapestry,” Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston LVI, no. 56 (Winter 1958), 147-148.
Christa Charlotte Mayer, Masterpieces of Western Textiles from The Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1969), 25-26, plate 10 (ill.).
Sophie Schneebalg-Perelman, “Un nouveau regard sur les origins et la developpement de la tapisserie bruxelloise du XIVe siecle a la pre-Renaissance.” In Tapisseries bruxelloises de la pre-Renaissance, edited by Guy Delmarcel, exh. cat. (Musees Royaux d’Art et d’Historie/Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis/Mercator Press, 1976), 185.
Christa C. Mayer Thurman, “Tapestry: The Purposes, Form, and Function of the Medium from Its Inception until Today.” In Acts of the Tapestry Symposium, November 1976, edited by Anna Grey Bennett (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1979), 11-13, fig. 12 (ill.).
Anna Gray Bennett, Five Centuries of Tapestry from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, rev. ed. (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1992), 54, 55, 73, fig. 44 (detail only).
Adolfo S. Cavallo, Medieval Tapestries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993), 443.
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 (Brepols Publishers, 2003), 171-184.
Elisabeth Antoine, La tapisserie du Jugement Dernier. Collection Solo 36 (Reunion des Musees Nationaux/Musee du Louvre, 2007), 23, 52, 53.
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), 62-68, cat. 6 (ill.).

Brussels, Exposition Nationale Belge, 1880, cat.
New York, Gimble Brothers Department Store, 1941, cat. 183-6.
Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of Western Textiles, Jan. 25–Mar. 2, 1969, cat.
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Five Centuries of Tapestry, 1978, cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Regenstein Hall, The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestry, Nov 1, 2008–Jan. 4, 2009.

Jacobo Luis Stuart Fitz-James (died 1881), 8th Duke of Berwick, 15th Duke of Alba de Tormes (1821-1881), Madrid, Spain, by 1877; sold Hotel Drouot, Paris, Duke of Berwick and Alba sale, April 7-20, 1877, lot 12; Baron Frederic Emile D’Erlanger (d. 1894), by 1880; Duveen Brothers, to 1922; sold to William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), 1922, for $75,000; ownership transferred International Studios Art Corporation (Hearst holding company) [offered to the Art Institute who declined purchase, 1940]; offered for sale by International Studio Art Corporation at Gimbel Brothers Department Store, New York, 1941; sold P. W. French and Co., New York, 1943, for $13,800; sold to the Art Institute, 1946.

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