tapestry 'chase de maximillian' (deer hunt at the "patte d'oie" lakes)

This piece is titled 'Deer hunt at the "Patte d'Oie" lakes' and is a circa 1920 reproduction of one of the celebrated 'Chase de Maximillian' scenes (produced in 1533) currently on display in The Louvre.

This copy was produced for the Château de Keriolet in Brittany. It depicts the month of August and measures 187X130 and is offered for sale in very good condition.Background history.The Hunts of Maximilian or Les Chasses de Maximilien, also Les Belles chasses de Guise (The Beautiful Hunts of Guise) are a set of twelve tapestries, one per month, depicting hunting scenes in the Sonian Forest, south of Brussels, by the court of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1519). They were produced in a Brussels workshop, and several tapestries are given identifiable locations that were then around the outskirts of the city, but are now mostly engulfed by it. The set is now in the Louvre.The original set, completed in the 1530s, were commissioned by a member of the Habsburg family either Charles V (Maximilian's grandson), or his aunt Margaret of Austria (Maximilian's daughter), or Charles's sister Mary of Hungary. Both princesses governed the Low countries in Charles' name, Mary taking over after Margaret's death in 1530. A contract of 1533 probably refers to these tapestries.

Antiques.co.uk Ref: YXHKE4C63

Maker/Artist:

Artis Flora

Width (cm):

187

Height (cm):

130

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