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Lot Essay
DESIGNERS
Teniers tapestries were named after David Teniers the Younger (d. 1690), court painter to Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, the governor of The Netherlands. However, very few designs can actually be traced back to his work. Indeed records indicate that several painters supplied such designs to weavers, who each seem to have owned their own designs, allowing attributions. The designers recorded are Ignatius de Hondt, Jacob van Helmont, Jan van Orley and Theobald Michau (d. 1765).
HISTORY
The first appearance of Teniers tapestries was a set supplied to Prince Rupert of Bavaria by Jacob van der Borght and Jéroën le Clerc in 1693. The same weavers supplied another set before 1700 to William III of England. The main production, however, took place in the 18th Century. The introduction of these designs coincided with the rise of the bourgeois class, which took such a liking to these subjects that this genre of tapestries was taken up by a multitude of workshops including Beauvais, Lille, Audenarde, Soho, Aubusson, Madrid and of course Brussels. Nearly every workshop in Brussels wove such sets. Most workshops had numerous differing subjects, some up to 20 different designs
WEAVER
This particular version of Kermesse can be attributed to Pieter van der Hecke (d. 1752), from a long line of tapestry weavers in Brussels, based on identically designed tapestries signed by him (H.C. Marillier, Handbook to the Teniers Tapestries, London, 1932, plate 5). Pieter was the dean of the tapestry guild from 1703 - 1711 and is believed to have had the designs to twelve different subjects. Several sets by him are recorded such as a set of six sold by Sir Charles Barrington, Christie's, London, 19 July 1927, and another set of five from Bedgebury, sold Christie's, London, 8 July 1896.
(G. Delmarcel, Flemish Tapestry, Tielt, 1999, pp. 352 - 361)
Teniers tapestries were named after David Teniers the Younger (d. 1690), court painter to Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, the governor of The Netherlands. However, very few designs can actually be traced back to his work. Indeed records indicate that several painters supplied such designs to weavers, who each seem to have owned their own designs, allowing attributions. The designers recorded are Ignatius de Hondt, Jacob van Helmont, Jan van Orley and Theobald Michau (d. 1765).
HISTORY
The first appearance of Teniers tapestries was a set supplied to Prince Rupert of Bavaria by Jacob van der Borght and Jéroën le Clerc in 1693. The same weavers supplied another set before 1700 to William III of England. The main production, however, took place in the 18th Century. The introduction of these designs coincided with the rise of the bourgeois class, which took such a liking to these subjects that this genre of tapestries was taken up by a multitude of workshops including Beauvais, Lille, Audenarde, Soho, Aubusson, Madrid and of course Brussels. Nearly every workshop in Brussels wove such sets. Most workshops had numerous differing subjects, some up to 20 different designs
WEAVER
This particular version of Kermesse can be attributed to Pieter van der Hecke (d. 1752), from a long line of tapestry weavers in Brussels, based on identically designed tapestries signed by him (H.C. Marillier, Handbook to the Teniers Tapestries, London, 1932, plate 5). Pieter was the dean of the tapestry guild from 1703 - 1711 and is believed to have had the designs to twelve different subjects. Several sets by him are recorded such as a set of six sold by Sir Charles Barrington, Christie's, London, 19 July 1927, and another set of five from Bedgebury, sold Christie's, London, 8 July 1896.
(G. Delmarcel, Flemish Tapestry, Tielt, 1999, pp. 352 - 361)