Hunting Scene

ca. 1440-1460 (Renaissance)

170 cm 361 cm

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This is the left portion of what would have been a very large tapestry, intended to cover the wall of a nobleman's great hall. Tapestries, besides being decorative, were used to provide insulation against cold winter drafts. Scenes of hunting were common in such courtly cont...

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1950
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Raoul Heilbronner, Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1908, by purchase, Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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2
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