Millefleurs Fragment: Neptune, God of the Waters

between 1500 and 1525

Flemish

Not On View

Millefleurs Fragment: Neptune, God of the Waters

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Title Millefleurs Fragment: Neptune, God of the Waters

Artwork Date between 1500 and 1525

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Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Flemish

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Wool and silk

Dimensions Overall: 97 × 39 1/4 inches (246.4 × 99.7 cm)

Classification Tapestries

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas F. Roby

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 58.414

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Inscriptions Inscribed, on tunic: NEPTVNVS RE[X]

Provenance

Prince de Ligne (possibly Brussels, Belgium)

(French & Co., New York, New York, USA)

until 1953, Katherine Deere Butterworth (Moline, Illinois, USA)

October 23, 1954, Katherine Butterworth collection sale (Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, New York, USA), lot 340

(French & Co., New York, New York, USA)

purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Douglas F. Roby (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA) via K.T. Keller, for DIA

1959-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

La Tapisserie Francaise du Moyen Age a Nos Jours. Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1947, p. 9.

French XVIII Century Furniture & Works of Art. Chinese Jades and Porcelains, Georgian Silver, Gothic & Renaissance Arts, Oriental Rugs Collected by the Late Katherine Deere Butterworth. Sales cat., Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. New York, 1954, p. 82, no. 340 (ill.).

Weibel, A. Coulin. "A Pair of Franco-Flemish Tapestries," Bulletin of the DIA 39, no. 3/4 (1959-60): pp. 96-97 (ill.).

Bruges. Le Siecle des Primitifs Flamands. Exh. cat (?), June 26-September 11, 1960, cat. no. 137.

Flanders in the Fifteenth Century. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, October 16-December 31, 1960, pp. 332-333, cat. no. 154.

Asselberghs, J.-P. Les Tapisseries Flamandes aux Etats-Unis d'Amerique. Brussels, 1974, p. 23.

Woven Splendor: Five Centuries of European Tapestry at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, July-Sept 1996, cat. no. 3, pp. 13, 25, 27, (color repro.) p. 24 [entry by A. Darr/M. Holcomb].

You, Yao-Fen. "Paul Coremans, Edgar Richardson and the 1960 Flemish Art show: A Transatlantic Friendship Forged by a Transatlantic Exhibition." In A Man of Vision, Scientia Artis 15. Brussels, 2019, pp. 172, note 2.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Flemish, Millefleurs Fragment: Neptune, God of the Waters, between 1500 and 1525, wool and silk. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas F. Roby, 58.414.