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| Keywords: Odysseus taking leave of Alcinous.JPG Artwork Unknown after ca 1630-1632 Wool silk cm 405 620 Private collection Mexico accession number object history ProvenanceEvent 1624 commission Władysław Sigismund Vasa ProvenanceEvent 1632 transfer Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ProvenanceEvent 1669 transfer John Casimir Vasa Paris ProvenanceEvent 1956 purchase French Co New York credit line The marks E R C cannot be identifed with any known weavers mark of the city of Brussels B B On October 5 1624 Gaspard Nagodt treasurer of the Prince of Poland signed a contract with a Brussels' weaver Jacob Geubels the Younger for delivery of ten tapestries representing the story of Odysseus of six yards height each The complete set comprised 594 yards and cost 19 008 florins Probably due to Prince's financial difficulties the tapestries were not executed till Geubels' death in 1629 and the commission was accomplished by an unknown workshop In the letter from September 15 1632 Władysław Vasa asked Christian IV of Denmark to release his tapestries from customs Rkps Riqsarkivet Polen A I 3 Rijksuniversiteit te Gent Sectie Kunstgeschiedenis en Oudheidkunde 1995 Gentse bijdragen tot de kunstgeschiedenis en oudheidkunde De Sectie Kunstgeschiedenis en Oudheidkunde van de Rijksuniversiteit te Gent met de Steun van het Universiteitsvermogen Copyright expired PD-Art PD-old-100 Works after Jacob Jordaens Textiles from the Polish Vasa Collection Odysseus | ||||
