About the Artwork
Don Quixote and the Windmills
between 1715 and 1719
Jan van Orley (Artist) Flemish, 1665-1735 Daniel Leyniers II (Weaver) Flemish, 1669 - 1728 Henri Reydams (Weaver) Flemish, 1650 - 1719 Urbain Leyniers (Weaver) Flemish, 1674-1747
Wool, silk
131 1/2 × 101 3/4 inches (3 m 34 cm × 258.4 cm)
Tapestries
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Bequest of Hettie B. Speck, 1950
61.395
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
"[L]EYNIERS R[EYDAMS]" (center of bottom selvege)
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Brussels city mark (bottom selvege, center)
Provenance
Hettie B. Speck
1961-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Göbel, H., WANDTEPPICHE, I: DIE NIEDERLANDE, 2 vols, Leipzig, 1923, vol. 1, p. 342.
Asselberghs, J.-P., LES TAPISSERIES FLAMANDES AUX ETATS-UNIS D'AMERIQUE, Brussels, 1974, p 25.
Woman's City Club of Detroit, "Autumn Tapestry" Flower Show, Sept 16, 17, 1954.
Brosens, K., and G. Delmarcel. "Les aventures de Don Quichotte, tapisseries bruxelloises de l'atelier Leyniers-Reydams." REVUE BELGE D'ARCHEOLOGIE ET D'HISTOIRE DE L'ART LXVII (1998): 65, 91, 64, fig. 3.
Detroit, DIA, WOVEN SPLENDOR: FIVE CENTURIES OF EUROPEAN TAPESTRY AT THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS, July-Sept 1996, mentioned in Checklist, p. 74.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Urbain Leyniers; after Jan van Orley; Daniel Leyniers II; et al., Don Quixote and the Windmills, between 1715 and 1719, wool, silk. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Hettie B. Speck, 1950, 61.395.
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