Awaiting the Chase

Set of four tapestries, with landscape scenes and figures inspired from the Hunts of Maximilian, now in the Louvre and woven after the cartoons of Bernard Van Orley, also preserved in the Louvre. Woven at sides with bases sustaining figures of putti and decorated with ram's heads. Embellishment of festoons, pendant bunches of fruits and flowers. Top border with scrolled, oblong cartouche in center, which contains a miniature landscape scene, supported by winged cherubs. Similar cartouche, with swags of fruit and flowers in bottom border. .1 Awaiting the Chase In the immediate foreground trwo huntsmen, one of whom reclines against a tree and caresses a hound. The hunters wear short doublets and broadrimmed hats. Hunters' horns are slung over their shoulders.; warp undyed wool, 7-8 ends per cm., weft dyed wool and silk, 24-40 ends per cm.