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The Miraculous Draught of Fishes (tapestry)

about 1630

2016.372

On display in H215

wool {woven, fabric, or thread}silk {fabric or thread}wool {fabric}weaving

Artwork Details

Artist
Artist
Creation Date
about 1630
Materials
wool
Object Types
hangings, tapestries
Dimensions

162 -1/4 x 195-1/4 in.

Mark Description

Monogram, woven, left side of bottom edge: BB [cipher for Brabant-Brussels] Monogram, woven, lower half of right edge: HM [overlapping initials for Hendrick Mattens]

Accession Number
2016.372
Credit Line

The Clowes Collection

Copyright
Public Domain
Collection

Textile and Fashion Arts

Color Palette

Baron Max von Heyl [1844-1925], Darmstadt, Germany, by 1925; Sale at (Hugo Helbing, Munich, Germany) in 1930.{1} (V.B. Galleries, Inc.);{2} Dr. George Henry Alexander Clowes [1877-1958], Indianapolis, Indiana, by 1958; Clowes Fund Collection, Indianapolis; given to the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2016. {1} Hugo Helbing, Munich, Katalog der Sammlung Baron Heyl, Darmstadt (Band 1): Sammlung von Antiquitäten, Gemälden alter und neuer Meister, Skulpturen, Textilien, Wandteppichen und Orientteppichen, alten Möbeln und Einrichtungsgegenständen aus dem Nachlass des verewigten Freiherrn Max von Heyl, Generalleutnant à. l. s. und seiner Gemahlin Doris, geb. Stein, Darmstadt, Munich, 28 and 29 October 1930, catalogue no. 256, plate 33. {2} IMA, Clowes Archive, contains a dealer’s binder whose authorship is identified as “V.B. Galleries, Inc.” This gallery can now be identified as "The Galleries of Paul S. Van Baarn, Ltd." specializing in antique tapestries, paintings, furniture and works of art; see "Front Matter," Burlington Magazine (March 1938): vi.



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