L'Ouïe (de "Tapisseries de la Dame à la Licorne")

Unknown


Item type:
textile, clothing and costume
Date of creation:
1484-1538
Height:
360.0 cm  (141 3/4 in.)
Width:
280.0 cm  (110 1/4 in.)
Technique / Medium:
tapestry of sheep wool, silk

Additional titles

Hearing (of the tapestry series "The Lady and the Unicorn")

Description

This tapestry is devoted to the sense of hearing, with the "Lady of the Unicorn" playing a portable organ whilst her maid works the bellows. A lion (to the Lady's right) and unicorn (to the Lady's left) frame the scene holding up the pennants. The tapestry belongs to a series of six tapestries depciting the six senses and created in the style of "mille-fleurs". They were woven in Flanders based on drawings executed in Paris.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Portative organ [2267]

RIdIM images



Bibliographic references

Boudet, Jean-Patrice. "La Dame à la licorne et ses sources médiévales d'inspiration", in: Bulletin de la Société nationale des Antiquaires de France, séance (10 février 1999) 61-78; enlarged version: https://web.archive.org/web/20070331002834/http://lamop.univ-paris1.fr/W3/DamealaLicorne.pdf

Decu Teodorescu, Carmen. "La tenture de la Dame la licorne: nouvelle lecture des armoiries", in: Bulletin Monumental, Société française d'archéologie, 168/4 (2010) 355-367.

Pastoureau, Michel, and Taburet-Delahaye. Elisabeth, Les secrets de la licorne (Paris: Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2013).




Taburet-Delahaye, Elisabeth. La Dame à la licorne (Paris: Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2007)

RIdIM record id

10883