Mercury Hands the Bacchus Boy to the Nymphs to be Educated (from the Series of Ovid's Metamorphoses)

Inscription(s)

I.V.D.B.

Mercury Hands the Bacchus Boy to the Nymphs to be Educated (from the Series of Ovid's Metamorphoses)

Austria, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, inv. TLXXIX 4 , as van der Borcht, J.

Series	Ovid's Metamorphoses
Other title(s)	Mercure donne Bacchus enfant aux nymphes Merkur übergibt den Bacchusknaben an die Nymphen zur Erziehung
Category	tapestries
Support	wool and silk
Composition	horizontal
Dimensions	343 x 452 cm
Location	permanent collection

Last attribution known	van der Borcht, J.
Weaver	van der Beurcht, J.
Figures	Van Schoor, L.
Our assessment	LA (landscape)

Bibliography

DE MEÛTER, I., Vlaamse wandtapijten, Productie en handel, De Oudenaardse familie Van Verren (1680-1740), 2016, p. 392, ill. 239 (as LA, fig. by van Schoor, L. (?))

GARCIA CALVO, M., Tapices de escenas mitológicas tejidos en los talleres bruselenses de Jacques van der Borcht (h. 1650-h.1709-1713) y Albert Auwercx (1629-1709): nueva documentación in ARCHIVO ESPAÑOL DE ARTE, LXXXIX, 355, 2016, p. 242 s. (as LA (landscape))