Joshua and David (from the Nine Heroes Tapestries) _ South Netherlandish _ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Joshua and David (from the Nine Heroes
Tapestries)
ca. 1400–1410
South Netherlandish
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Artwork Details
Title: Joshua and David (from the Nine Heroes Tapestries)
Date: ca. 1400–1410
Culture: South Netherlandish
Medium: Wool warp, wool wefts
Dimensions: 47.101.1: 168 x 250 in. (426.7 x 635 cm)
47.152: 168 x 250 in. (426.7 x 635 cm)
Classification: Textiles-Tapestries
Credit Line: Munsey Fund, 1932; Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1947; Gift of
George A. Douglass, 1947
Accession Number: 32.130.3b; 47.101.1; 47.152
Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings
Marking: Arms (on thirteen banners atop turrets, on
bosses of vaulting above Joshua and David): azure, semé
of fleurs-de-lis gold, within a border engrailed gules [Arms
of Jean duc de Berry];
(on banner next to end turret at right of tapestry): bendy of
six, azure and gold [Arms of Burgundy];
(on shield at right of figure): argent, a dragon vert [Arms of
Joshua];
(on shield at right of figure): azure, a harp gold [Arms of
David]
Provenance
[ Joel Joseph Duveen, London] [32.130.3b] ; Maurice
Chabrières-Arlès, Lyon and Paris (by 1877) [32.130.3b] ; [
Duveen Brothers, Paris and New York (from late 1915)
[32.130.3b] ; Clarence Mackay American, Roslyn, NY
(1924–sold 1932) [32.130.3b] ; Joel Joseph Duveen,
London [47.101.1] ; Baron Arthur Schickler 1828–1919,
château Martinvast, Normandy (from about 1872)
[47.101.1] ; Count and Countess Hubert de Pourtalès,
château Martinvast, Normandy (sold 1936) [47.101.1] ; [
Brummer Gallery, Paris and New York (1936–1947) ]
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[47.101.1] ; Clarence Mackay American, Roslyn, NY
[47.152] ; [ Raphael Stora and Co., New York, New York
(?)] [47.152] ; George A. Douglass, Sr., New York (until
1947) [47.152]
References
Collection Chabrières-Arlès. s.n., [1916]. [pl. 56].
Rorimer, James J. Mediaeval Tapestries: A Picture Book.
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1947. p. 2.
Rorimer, James J. "The Museum's Collection of
Mediaeval Tapestries." The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bulletin, n.s., 6, no. 3 (November 1947). pp. 92–93, 98.
Adam-Even, Paul. "La tapisserie aux Preux (Metropolitan
Museum, New York)." Revue Française d'Héraldique et
de Sigillographie 5, no. 12 (1949). pp. 74–76.
Comstock, Helen. "The Connoisseur in America: The
Rediscovery of the Duke of Berry's 'Heroes'." The
Connoisseur 124 (1949). pp. 114–116.
Rorimer, James J., and Margaret B. Freeman. "The Nine
H T t i t Th Cl i t " Th M t lit
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