The Vintage No. 5
Entombment on Millefleurs No. 8
This piece was probably woven under Pasquier Grenier at Tournai, as were the Wars of Troy, on which there are some documents.
Lent by P. W. French & Company.
This tapestry presents with extraordinary vividness the fury, din, excessive effort, hot excitement, and blinding confusion of crowded hand-to-hand conflicts that marked mediæval warfare. It must have been conceived and rendered by an eye-witness who knew how to select and assemble the raw facts of the situation with such honesty and directness that an overwhelming impression of force and tumult is created, and it was woven for patrons, the fighting Dukes of Burgundy, by whom every gruesome incident would be observed with relish and every fine point of individual combat noted with a shrewd and appraising eye.
8 FRANCE, END XV CENTURY
Wool.
H. 2 ft. 10 in.
W. 7 ft. 10 in.