Flandres ou France - Tapisserie Mille Fleurs - XVIe siècle - Laine, 315 x 110 cm - Inv. 61 1496
Tapestry thousand flowers
In the Middle Ages, tapestries were mobile decorative elements, also intended to protect from the cold in the lordly residences. This fragment of tapestry is a significant example. The vegetal motifs (blue, red and golden flowers) bloom along the hanging like a climbing plant.
This "thousand flowers" decoration is characteristic of the art of the liciers in the 15th century and is reminiscent of the hanging of The Lady with the Unicorn kept at the Museum of Cluny - National Museum of the Middle Ages. The bestiary represented (hare, stag, badger, fox, partridge) is inspired by the models disseminated by German engraving of the sixteenth century.
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