About the Artwork
The Riding School: Curvetting to the Right
ca. 1670
Pieter Spierinckx (Designer) Flemish, 1635 - 1711 Pieter Wauters (Weaver) Flemish, born 1670 - unknown
Wool and silk
Overall: 161 inches × 19 feet 3 inches (4 m 8.9 cm × 5 m 86.7 cm)
Tapestries
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of Marion Jarves Alger in memory of her husband, Russell A. Alger
35.2
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, cartouche, upper guard, center: CROVPADES | PAR LE DROIT | TE
Marked, right end of lower gaurd, ERS is restoration: PEETER WAVTERS
Provenance
May 17, 1907 (Hôtel Drouot, Paris, France)
(French & Co., New York, New York, USA)
Marion Jarves Alger and Russell A. Alger
1935-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Göbel, H. Wandteppiche, 1:1: Die Niederlande (Leipzig, 1923): p. 456.
Weibel, A. C. "Tapestries by Peeter Wauters," Bulletin of the DIA 14, no. 4 (January 1935): pp. 44-47 (ill.).
Duverger, J. "De rijschool of grote en kleine paarden in de XVIIe eeuwse Tapijtkunst," in Het Herfsttij van de Vlaamse Tapijtkunst/La tapisserie flamande aux XVIIme et XVIIIme siècles [Colloque International 8-10 Octobre, 1959, Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie...] (Brussels 1959): pp. 123, 163-165.
Duverger, E. "Antwerpse tapijtkunst en tapijthandel," in Antwerpse Wandtapijten (Het Sterckshof, Deurne 1973), p. 34 [incorrectly states that the borders of 35.2 and 35.3 bears the inscription: "CURA PETRI WOUTERS ANTVERPIAE"].
Asselberghs, J.-P. Les tapisseries flamandes aux Etats-Unis d'Amerique. Brussels, 1974, p. 25.
Albainy, T., et al. Woven Splendor: Five Centuries of European Tapestry at the Detroit Institute of Arts. mentioned in checklist, p. 73.
De Meûter, I. "Le peintre anversois Pieter Spierinckx (1635-1711), créateur de cartons de tapisseries," in K. Brosens, ed., Flemish Tapestry in European and American Collections: Studies in Honour of Guy Delmarcel. Turnhout, 2003, pp. 134-135, (fig. 2 ill.); p. 148.
De Meûter, I. "De wandtapijtproductie in Oudenaarde rond 1700 in relatie met de andere Vlaamse centra," unpublished Ph.D. Ghent, 2008-2009, vol. I, (fig. 3.80).
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Pieter Wauters; Pieter Spierinckx, The Riding School: Curvetting to the Right, ca. 1670, wool and silk. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Marion Jarves Alger in memory of her husband, Russell A. Alger, 35.2.
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