A Flemish tapestry, The Story of Romulus and Remus (7), late 16th/early 17th century, attributed to ...

A Flemish tapestry,
The Story of Romulus and Remus (7),
late 16th/early 17th century, attributed to Jakob Geubels the Elder, depicting Romulus presenting to his grandfather, Numitor, King of Alba Longa, the severed head of his usurper brother,, Amulius, shown in a four-sided compartmental floral border, with illustrations of Latin proverbs and allegorical and mythological figures,
size approximately 10ft 5in high x 12ft 6in wide (317 x 380cm)

Provenance: Christie's, London.

An almost, identical tapestry, with the Brussels town mark and weaver's mark identified as Jakob Geubels I (Gobel: Part I weaver's marks, p.3), was sold at Sotheby's London, 26 June 1981, lot 9. In both examples, the composition is cut to the right of the, tent. Another similar, but later, version in a border of fruit and flowers, and with the figure of Numitor placed at the centre of the tapestry, is illustrated by Anna G Bennett, 'Five Centuries of Tapestry', 1976, no. 40, dated as c.1635.