Lots 312 and 313 Two important Brussels tapestries from the 'History of Venus' series, in well ...

Lots 312 and 313
Two important Brussels tapestries from the 'History of Venus' series, in well preserved colours, within broad naturalistic borders woven with animals, bunches of fruit, birds and flowers.

A Brussel mythological tapestry,
The Story, of Venus: Venus disclosing to Diomedes the conduct of his wife Aegialia,
probably mid-16th century, after Bernard van Orley, possibly from the workshop of Guasparo di Bartolommeo Papini after Alessandro Allori,
300 x 650cm approximately

Panel VI, of the Madrid set corresponds to the present tapestry, but without the figure of the fallen warrior with Venus(?) standing behind him to the right. ('In the Madrid example the right hand portion has been cut away so that Cupid is aiming at a purely, conjectural target', Country Life, 20 January, 1934, North Mymms Park: II). It also has a more detailed landscape background and lacks the figures of mermen riding on sea monsters. The title now given to this tapestry is the same as that given to, the example in Madrid. This is also illustrated in 'Gobel Wandteppiche', Leipzig, 1923, Part I, Vol. II, abb.98.