"The triumph of love and eternity over time"

Royal Manufactury of Brussels

By VAN LEEFDAEL
Design by DAVID TENIERS (Teniers III. 1638 - 1685)

Woven in wool, silk and metal threads

Dated 1684 

Heraldic tapesty, woven in silver-metal threads, silks and wools, centred by the cartouche-shaped arms of Count Antonio Lopez of Ayala Velasco e Cardenas, Count of Fuensalida and Colmenar, beneath a crown and flanked by a winged maiden, representing eternity, and putti, in the foreground beneath the kneeling figure of father time, his arms bound by Eros, God of Love, flanked by floral rails, with a simulated fringed tapestry border held by further putti. 


Signed D. TENIERS: INV PINX 1684 to the lower left and GILL. VAN LEEFDAEL FECIT" (Guillaume=Willem van Leefdael 1601-1688) . lower right, the blue outer slip with Brussels town mark.   

Probably published in H. Göbel, Tapestries of the Lowlands, New York, 1924, fig. 185.