A Brussels Teniers tapestry, of the Kermesse, mid-18th century, woven in blues, reds and verdure ...

A Brussels Teniers tapestry, of the Kermesse,
mid-18th century, woven in blues, reds and verdure tones with groups of peasants making merry, eating, drinking and dancing outside an inn, with rustic buildings on the left and a pond in the foreground, overhung by trees, with a distant landscape in the background, in picture frame border with the Brussels town mark in the selvedge,
10ft 4in x 17ft 10in (314 x 543cm)

Provenance: With J Pierpont Morgan;
Christies North Mymms Park, September 1979,, lot 494.

This version of the Kermesse is attributed by H C Marillier to the Van der Borcht brothers, Pierre (active 1712-1763) and François (active 1720-1765), ('Handbook to the Teniers Tapestries', 1932, pp.46-48). Marillier lists the present, example amongst the surviving complete panels which include a large set in Vienna and another set formerly in the collection of the Earl of Bradford, Castle Bromwich.