Lot 267: Attributed to the workshop pf Jerome de Clerc and Jacques van der Borght, A tapestry fragment, after David Teniers, Flemish, 1638-1685, 'The fishmarket', Brussels late 17th century

woven with fishermen and merchants on a fish-quay before a fortified town, with cut border and horizontal seam with Latin inscription David Teniers. Ser.morum Principum Leopoldi Archiducis et Ioannis (Austriaci pictor familiaris et utr'sque acubiculis designabat)

238cm. high, 191cm. wide.

See H.C. Marillier, Handbook to the Teniers Tapestries, London 1932, p. 3, ill. 8 for another example of this composition. Marillier notes Jerome Le Clerc and Jacques Van der Borght as among the first weavers of the extensive series of so-called 'Teniers' tapestries which continued to be woven until the late 18th century. Variant versions of the Latin inscription are found on other examples of the 'Fish Market' from the Le Clerc and Van der Borght workshops but not on later examples.

This tapestry has been manufactured after a model by the Flemish painter David Teniers III for Archeduke Leopold Wilhelm (1614-1662).