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Title:The Falcon's Bath
Date:ca. 1400–1415
Culture:South Netherlandish
Medium:Wool warp, wool wefts
Dimensions:Overall: 100 x 91in. (254 x 231.1cm)
Classification:Textiles-Tapestries
Credit Line:Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederic B. Pratt, 1943
Object Number:43.70.2
[ Bacri Frères, Paris and New York (in 1912)]; Mr. and Mrs. Frederic B. Pratt, Brooklyn and Glen Cove, N.Y. (by 1920–1943)
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Kurth, Betty. "Die Blütezeit der Bildwirkerkunst zu Tournai und der burgundische Hof." Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des Allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses 34 (1918). p. 69.
Margerin. "Les tapisseries de verdure, de leur origine au milieu du XIVe siecle, dans les ateliers d'Arras, de Tournai et d'Audenarde." Bulletin des musées de France 4 (1932). p. 141.
Taylor, Francis Henry, Horace H. F. Jayne, and Laurence S. Harrison. "Review of the Year: 1943." Annual Report of the Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 74 (1943). p. 32.
Forsyth, William Holmes. "The Noblest of Sports: Falconry in the Middle Ages." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, n.s., 2, no. 9 (May 1944). pp. 256–259, ill. p. 254.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Seventy-Seventh Annual Report of the Trustees for the Year 1946; Review of the Year 1946." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, n.s., 6, no. 1 (Summer 1947). p. 18.
Rorimer, James J. Mediaeval Tapestries: A Picture Book. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1947. fig. 3.
Young, Bonnie. "The Lady Honor and Her Children." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, n.s., 21, no. 10 (June 1963). p. 342, fig. 2.
Schneebalg-Perelman, Sophie. "La Dame à la licorne a été tissée à Bruxelles." Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 6th ser., 70 (1967). p. 266.
Coffinet, Julien. Arachné ou L'art de la tapisserie. Paris: Bibliothèque des arts, 1971. pp. 179–80.
Souchal, Geneviève, ed. Chefs-d'œuvre de la tapisserie du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Paris: Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, 1973. no. 25, pp. 87–89.
Souchal, Geneviève, ed. Masterpieces of Tapestry from the Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Century. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974. no. 26, pp. 83–84.
Verdier, Philippe. "The Medieval Collection." Apollo 103 (1976). no. 16 n. 2, p. 366.
Coffinet, Julien. Métamorphoses de la tapisserie. Paris: Bibliothèque des arts, 1977. pp. 28, 30–31.
Lestocquoy, Jean. Deux siècles de l'histoire de la tapisserie, 1300-1500: Paris, Arras, Lille, Tournai, Bruxelles. Arras: Commission départementale des monuments historiques du Pas-de-Calais, 1978. p. 117, pls. 29,30.
Cavallo, Adolfo S. Medieval Tapestries in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993. no. 3b, pp. 14, 72–73, 125–33.
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