Wapentapijt van koning Willem III, stadhouder van de Nederlanden, en koningin Mary Stuart II

Wapentapijt van koning Willem III, stadhouder van de Nederlanden, en koningin Mary Stuart II

NG-519

• inscription: ‘HONI.SOIT.QUI MAL.Y.PENSE’
• signature: ‘I. COBUS’
• mark: ‘B B, waartussen een schild’
• inscription: ‘IE MAINTIENDRAY’

Tapestry, probably after a design by Daniël Marot, 1689-1694. On the tapestry, in the centre, are the arms of England, Scotland, Ireland and the lion from the ancestral coat of arms of William III. Around this is the text 'Honi soit qui mal y pense' (Shamed be he who thinks evil of it), the motto of the Order of the Garter, England's foremost order of chivalry. Above the crown, borne by two mythological figures, is the monogram RWMR of the king and queen: Rex William and Mary Regina. The probable designer of the tapestry - Daniël Marot - was regularly commissioned as a court artist by William and Mary. When Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685, Marot and thousands of other French Protestants fled to the Netherlands.

Ebeltje Hartkamp-Jonxis, 'Tapestries of the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum : History of the Collection', Filo forme : Storia arte e restauro dei tessili 2 (2002), nr. 3, p. 20, 21, afb. 1.

• maker: Jan Cobus, Brussels
• designer: attributed to Daniël Marot (I), The Hague
• maker: Johannes Christoph Lotijn, The Hague

c. 1689 - c. 1694

height 292.0 cm x width 244.0 cm

Jeri Bapasola, Tapestry in the Baroque: threads of splendor, New York 2007, p. 494, fig. 220. Vermeldt en toont een identiek wandtapijt.

purchase 1965

Public domain

Ebeltje Hartkamp-Jonxis, 'Tapestries of the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum : History of the Collection', Filo forme : Storia arte e restauro dei tessili 2 (2002), nr. 3, p. 20, 21, afb. 1.

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