Hawking Scene

Artists

Description

A hawking company emerges from a castle to set out on a hunt. Two noblemen are shown on horseback while three others are on foot. They hold up hawks, a hunting horn, a sword and a bow and arrow. In the right foreground we see peasants, one of whom has taken off his cap to greet the nobles. The landscape background features two rustics and cottages. The tapestry misses its original borders and it was likely cut down on all sides. The style, subject and landscape with milles-fleurs and elevated horizon are characteristic of tapestry production in Tournai around 1515.

Dimensions

319.4 x 296.2 cm (125 3/4 x 116 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Herbert Lee Pratt, New York. Emmet Blakeney Gleason, bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1959.