About the Artwork
Charity
between 1500 and 1510
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Flemish
Unknown
Wool and silk
Overall: 152 inches × 20 feet 10 inches (3 m 86.1 cm × 6 m 35 cm)
Tapestries
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation
55.520
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Provenance
by 1880, "Antoinette de Montmorency-Luxembourg" (possibly Anne-Marie-Josèphe, Princesse de Montmorency-Beaumont-Luxembourg) until 1922, by descent to her son[?], Baron Felix Vogt d'Hunolstein (Paris, France)
1922, sold to (Duveen Brothers, New York, New York, USA)
April 1922, sold to William Randolph Hearst (New York, New York, USA)
1951, by bequest to the William Randolph Hearst Foundation (New York, New York, USA)
1956-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Catalogue descriptif des tapisseries exposées au Musée des Arts Décoratifs en 1880. Exh. cat., Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Paris, 1880, no. 7.
Müntz, E. "Tapisseries allégoriques inédites ou peu connus," Commission de la Fondation Eugene Piot. Monuments et Memoires. Paris, vol. 9, 1902, pls. VII-VIII.
Ackerman, P. "Early Flemish Tapestries in the Collection of William Randolph Hearst, Esq.," Connoisseur 105 (June 1940): pp. 187-210.
Coulin Weibel, A. & F. Robinson. Four Late Gothic and Flemish Tapestries of Virtues and Vices from the Collection of William Randolph Hearst. Detroit, 1955.
Coulin Weibel, A. & F. Robinson. "Four Late Gothic Allegorical Tapestries," Bulletin of the DIA 36, no. 3 (1956-57): pp. 60-63.
Handbook. DIA, 1971, p. 124.
Asselberghs, J.P. Les Tapisseries Flamandes aux Etats-Unis d'Amerique. Brussels, 1974, p. 23.
Delcarcel, G. Tapisseries bruxelloises de la pré-Renaissance. Exh. cat., Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire. Brussels, 1976, p. 100.
Woven Splendor: Five Centuries of European Tapestry at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, July-September 1996, cat. no. 7, pp. 13, 30-1, 34, pp. 34-35 (color repro) (entry by A.P. Darr & M. Holcomb).
Gallagher, B. "William Randolph Hearst and the Detroit Institute of Arts," Bulletin of the DIA 78, nos. 1/2 (2004): p. 56; p. 63.
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Flemish, Charity, between 1500 and 1510, wool and silk. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, 55.520.
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