About the Artwork
"The Captive Rulers," from the Deeds and Triumphs of Scipio Africanus
ca. 1660
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Flemish
Unknown
Wool, silk, silver and gilt-metal wrapped thread
125 inches × 18 feet 4 inches (3 m 17.5 cm × 5 m 58.8 cm)
Tapestries
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Bequest of Mrs. Theodore Bargman
65.77
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
remnant of banderole (bottom, center): "NISI DOMINUS AEDIFICAVERIT DOMUM, IN VANUM LABORANT, QUI AEDIFICANT EAM." .
Provenance
Don Luis de Benavides
Chester A. Souther, (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Bargman, (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
his widow, Mrs. Theodore Bargman, (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1965-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Darr, Alan Phipps, Tracey Albainy and Melanie Holcomb. Woven Splendor: Five Centuries of European Tapestry in the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1996, p. 74. [as "Roman Triumph"]
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Flemish, "The Captive Rulers," from the Deeds and Triumphs of Scipio Africanus, ca. 1660, wool, silk, silver and gilt-metal wrapped thread. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Theodore Bargman, 65.77.
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