Detail View: The AMICA Library: Tapestry Fragment from the Series, Five Worthies and Attendant Figures (with 32.130.3ab)

AMICA ID: 
MMA_.47.101.4
AMICA Library Year: 
2000
Object Type: 
Textiles
Creator Nationality: 
European; Netherlandish
Creator Name-CRT: 
South Netherlandish
Title: 
Tapestry Fragment from the Series, Five Worthies and Attendant Figures (with 32.130.3ab)
View: 
Full View
Creation Date: 
ca. 1400-1410
Creation Start Date: 
1400
Creation End Date: 
1410
Materials and Techniques: 
Wool warp, wool wefts
Classification Term: 
Textiles-Tapestries
Dimensions: 
14 ft. x 9 ft. 9 in. (426.7 x 297.2 cm)
AMICA Contributor: 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: 
New York, New York, USA
ID Number: 
47.101.4
Credit Line: 
Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1947
Rights: 
Context: 

This tapestry is part of four hangings that have been reconstructed from what originally was a set of three tapestries depicting the Nine (or Ten?) Worthies. The heroes depicted included King Arthur, Joshua, David, Hector of Troy, and Julius Caesar, along with various attendants. One of the reconstructed hangings (32.130.2b, 47.101.1, 47.152) shows two of the three Hebrew Worthies in their settings and with nearly all of their attendant figures. Another represents King Arthur (32.130.2a, 47.101.4), one of the three or possibly four figures that appeared in the original tapestry devoted to the Christian Worthies, together with some attendant figures. The third and fourth pieces represent respectively Hector of Troy (47.101.2) and Julius Caesar (47.101.3), with attendant, taken from a third tapestry that depicted the three Pagan Worthies. Other fragments (47.101.5 and 49.123), showing architectural elements, bits of landscape, and the incomplete figures of three cardinals and a bishop, all apparently unconnected to those parts of the three original hangings that survive, are preserved separately in the Metropolitan Museum.

Related Image Identifier Link: 
MMA_.cl47.101.4.R.tif