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Mythological Scene

Hendrik II Reydams (fl. 1669 – d. 1719)

Category

Tapestries

Date

circa 1670 - circa 1682

Materials

Tapestry, wool, silk and metal thread.

Measurements

3.06 x 3.75 m

Place of origin

Brussels

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Collection

Knole, Kent

NT 130082.4

Summary

Tapestry, wool and silk, Mythological Scene from a set of Stories from Ovid, Hendrik II Reydams, Brussels, c. 1670-1682. In the centre is a group of a kneeling huntsman and a winged boy, with two hunting dogs and a donkey. They are joined by a goddess who descends in a cloud on the right. The setting is a wooded landscape. The borders are of fruit, leaves and birds on a brown ground. The tapestry is one of six with stories from Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’ made in Brussels by Hendrik II Reydams, whose signature appears on most of the set along with the mark of the city. The tapestries may be the ‘6 peces of Tapestry Storys out of Ovid out of ye ante Chamber to the Rich bed Chamber’, listed among a load of goods ‘Caried from [?Copt]hall to Knowle out of ye Qu[en]es C[?hamber]’ on 13 December 1700. This indicates that the tapestries may have among the goods taken as perquisites by the 6th Earl of Dorset from Queen Mary’s apartments at Whitehall after her death in 1695.

Credit line

Knole, The Sackville Collection (The National Trust)

Marks and inscriptions

HR (woven into galloon)

Makers and roles

Hendrik II Reydams (fl. 1669 – d. 1719), workshop

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