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design by Lodewijck van Schoor; cartoon by Lodewijck van Schoor (figures) and Pieter Spierincx (background); woven in Brussels in an undetermined workshop

America, c. 1675/1699

Not on View

Medium

tapestry: undyed wool warp, dyed wool and silk weft

Dimensions

overall: 341.3 x 496.6 cm (134 3/8 x 195 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Lewis Einstein

Accession Number

1950.6.1

Artists / Makers

Lodewijck van Schoor (designer) Flemish, 1666 - 1726

Pieter Spierincx (designer) Flemish, 1635 - 1711

Brussels 17th Century (weaver)

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Inscription

on the central sphere of upper border: AMERICA; on the foremost ingot at lower right: L. VAN SCHOOR. IN. & PINX.

Provenance

Lewis Einstein [1877-1967], London, Paris, and Prague, by 1924;[1] gift 1950 to NGA.

[1] James Hazen Hyde, "L'Iconographie des Quatre Parties due Monde dans les tapisseries," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 10 (November 1924): 260. See also the exchange of letters in 1924 between Einstein (then American ambassador to Czechoslovakia) and Hyde (donor of NGA 1959.5.1) about their similar tapestries (copies in NGA curatorial files; the originals are in the James Hazen Hyde Papers, correspondence files, folder: Lewis Einstein, held by The New-York Historical Society, New York).

Associated Names

Einstein, Lewis D.

Exhibition History

1950: Extended loan for use by the Ambassador, U.S. Embassy residence, Paris, France, 1950-1952.

1957: Extended loan for use by the Ambassador, U.S. Embassy residence, Paris, France, 1957-1961.

1961: Extended loan for use by the U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C., 1961-1975.

1976: The European Vision of America, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Cleveland Museum of Art; Grand Palais, Paris, 1976-1977, not in cat. (shown only in Cleveland and Paris; see cat. no. 123 [NGA 1959.5.1] for tapestry shown at NGA venue).

1985: The Continental Image: Allegorical Representations of the Four Continents, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, 1985.

1992: America, Bride of the Sun: 500 years Latin America and the Low Countries, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, 1992, no. 170, repro.

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.