FRANSES AT TEFAF MAASTRICHT 2019
FRANSES exhibited at TEFAF Maastricht from Saturday 10th March to Sunday 18th March 2018 and will exhibit again in 2019. The Gallery was first time exhibitor in 2018 and the only specialist in historic tapestries, carpets and textile art at the fair. Highlights in TEFAF 2018 include a major Delft […]
FRANSES exhibited at TEFAF Maastricht from Saturday 10th March to Sunday 18th March 2018 and will exhibit again in 2019. The Gallery was first time exhibitor in 2018 and the only specialist in historic tapestries, carpets and textile art at the fair.
Highlights in TEFAF 2018 include a major Delft tapestry by Francois Spiering, woven to commemorate the 1609 Truce between the Dutch Republic and Spain; a recently discovered Upper Rhine Romance Tapestry circa 1480; the Julich-Cleves-Berg Table Carpet; the Balenciaga Carpet – a royal Cuenca carpet commissioned by Charles III; a Tudor Opus Anglicanum Chasuble made for Edward Bonner, Bishop of London, circa 1535-40; finally perhaps the greatest tapestry portrait, which depicts Sir Benjamin Thompson, the American scientist and intellectual, woven at the Gobelins around 1800.
Sir Benjamin Thompson, FRS
A Gobelins Tapestry Portrait, circa 1800
Dimensions: 0.55m x 0.66m 1ft 9.5in x 2ft 2in
An Allegory of Victory: The Triumph of David and the Israelites over the Philistines – The Triumph of Prince Maurits and the House of Orange over the Spanish Habsburgs.
Delft Tapestry, Northern Netherlands by Francois Spiering 1610
Dimensions: 7.67m x 2.11m 25ft 2in x 6ft 11in
Pairs of Courtly Lovers Pledging Fidelity
A Medieval Basel Tapestry, Upper Rhine, 1470-80
Dimensions: 1.73m x 0.94m 5ft 8in x 3ft 1in
