America

c. 1700

Lodewijck van Schoor

Designer, Flemish, 1666 - 1726

Pieter Spierincx

Designer, Flemish, 1635 - 1711

Albert Auwercx

Weaver, Flemish, active 1657/1680

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    tapestry: undyed wool warp; dyed wool, silk, and silver-wrapped silk weft

  • Credit Line

    Gift of James Hazen Hyde

  • Dimensions

    overall: 386 x 589.3 cm (151 15/16 x 232 in.)

  • Accession

    1959.5.1

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Purchased before 1914 at a private sale in France by James Hazen Hyde [1876-1959], Paris;[1] bequest 1959 to NGA.
[1] Letter, 30 August 1924, James Hazen Hyde to Lewis Einstein, in which Hazen writes: "I bought it at a private sale before the war." (James Hazen Hyde Papers, The New-York Historical Society, New York, correspondence folder: Lewis Einstein). See also James Hazen Hyde, "L'Iconographie des Quatre Parties due Monde dans les tapisseries," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 10 (November 1924): 260.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1931

  • Quatre Siècles de Colonisation Française, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 1931, no. 419.

1971

  • Extended loan for use by the Ambassador, U.S. Department of State, Paris, France, 1971-1975.

1975

  • The European Vision of America, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Cleveland Museum of Art; Grand Palais, Paris, 1976-1977, no. 123, repro. (shown only in Washington).

Bibliography

1924

  • Hyde, James Hazen. "L'Iconographie des quatre parties du monde dans les tapisseries." Gazette des Beaux-Arts per. 5, vol. 10 (1924): 260.

2013

  • Arizzoli, Louise. "James Hazen Hyde and the Allegory of the Four Continents: A research collection for an amateur art historian." Journal of the History of Collections 25, no. 2 (2013): 277-286, esp. 277, 284.

Inscriptions

on central sphere of upper border: AMERICA; on foremost ingot at lower right: L. VAN SCHOOR. IN. & PINX.; in the lower galloon, left of center, the Brussels city mark: B [shield] B; in the lower galloon, right of center: A.AVWERCX.

Wikidata ID

Q62758738

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