A LATE GOTHIC FLEMISH TAPESTRY, BRUGES, EARLY 16TH CENTURY

A LATE GOTHIC FLEMISH TAPESTRY
BRUGES, EARLY 16TH CENTURY
Woven in wools and silks, depicting an elderly woman receiving a blessing within a flowering foliate border, from The Tapestries of St Anatoile series, the upper border with Latin dedication to St. Anatoile of Salins; reduced in size, areas of reweaving and restorations
71 ½ in. (181.5 cm.) high; 60 ¾ in. (154.5 cm.) wide

Provenance

Collection of Marczell de Nemes, Budapest.
His sale, Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, 13-14 November 1928, lot 73.
The property of Mrs. Dorothy Hunt, Sotheby's, London, 7 July 1961, lot 27.

PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN