Grass Juice with Emboidery 18th Century - Moses at the source of the seven daughters of Jethro

Features

Artwork title:  Mosè alla fonte con le sette figlie di Jetro

Age:  18th Century / 1701 - 1800

Subject:  Sacred Subject

Artistic technique:  Tapestry

Technical specification:  Grass Juice

Description : Mosè alla fonte con le sette figlie di Jetro

Grass juice with thread inserts and stitchings. Big scene taken by the Old Testament which depicts Moses at the well while he is giving water to the sheep of Jetro's daughters (there is the enscription: Moyses adaquat oves). It is a copy of the tapestry depicting the cycle of Moses in Sala del Tiepolo of Palazzo Clerici in Milan. These tapestries were made by hand, probably in the second half of the 17th Century in Brussels by Jan II Leyniers (they are signed I.L. b.b.), he was a very famous artist coming from a family of tapestry weavers and dyers.

Product Condition:
Fair condition. Wear consistent with age and use.

Artwork dimensions (cm):
Height: 297
Width: 285
Depth: 2

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