The Metropolitan Museum of Art - King Arthur and Two Attendants (from the Nine Heroes Tapestries)

King Arthur and Two Attendants (from the Nine Heroes Tapestries)

Date:: ca. 1400
Culture:: South Netherlandish
Medium:: Wool warp, wool wefts
Dimensions:: Overall (King Arthur (2a, f)): 168 × 117 in. (426.7 × 297.2 cm) Overall (Hebrew Worthies (2b, c, and h)): 168 × 250 in. (426.7 × 635 cm)
Classification:: Textiles
Credit Line:: Munsey Fund, 1932
Accession Number:: 32.130.3a, b

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 018

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Marking: [.3a:] Arms: Azure, three crowns gold (representing Brittany, Scotland, and England) [Arms of Arthur]
Provenance

[ Joel Joseph Duveen , London] ; Maurice Chabrières-Arlès , Lyon and Paris (by 1877) ; [ Duveen Brothers , London, Paris and New York (from late 1915)] ; [ Clarence H. Mackay , Roslyn, NY (1924–sold 1932) ]
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What
Textiles (32,887)

Wool (9,974)

Tapestries (2,194)
Where
Europe (150,450)

Netherlands (7,870)
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Low Countries, 1400–1600 A.D.

Low Countries, 1000–1400 A.D.
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