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Workshops of Guillaume WERNIERS in Lille.
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Workshops of Guillaume WERNIERS in Lille.
See original version (French)
Estimate €3,000 - €4,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Workshops of Guillaume WERNIERS in Lille.
Important tapestry in wool and silk, border imitating a frame with cartouches, acanthus and scrolled shells. After the painter David Teniers le jeune representing a lively scene of characters and birds in the courtyard of a farm on the edge of a forest.
Signed at the bottom of the composition G. W. L. F. lower right and fleur-de-lys on a red background for the Lille mark.
302 x 351 cm.
Late 17th - early 18th century
(Restorations of use, doubled, small wears, old folds in edges).
-The workshops of Guillaume Werniers (1700-1738) specialised in the production of tapestries known as "ténières" depicting rural life, a very popular subject in the 18th century.
Bibliography :
17th-18th century tapestries - "Les ténières - Scènes de la vie villageoise d'après David Téniers le jeune (1610-1690)".
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