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| Title | Awaiting the Chase |
| Artist | Unidentified designers and cartoonists |
| Date | c. 1650 |
| Institution | Minneapolis Institute of Arts |
| Location | On view at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, G310 |
| Medium: | Textiles, Textile-Tapestry | Wool, silk; tapestry weave |
| Size: | 159 1/2 x 125 in. (405.13 x 317.5 cm) |
| Creation Place: | Europe, Belgium (Flanders) |
| Culture: | Europe, Belgium (Flanders) |
| Style: | 17th century |
| Physical Description: | Set of four tapestries, with landscape scenes and figures inspired from the Hunts of Maximilian, now in the Louvre and woven after the cartoons of Bernard Van Orley, also preserved in the Louvre. Woven at sides with bases sustaining figures of putti and decorated with ram's heads. Embellishment of festoons, pendant bunches of fruits and flowers. Top border with scrolled, oblong cartouche in center, which contains a miniature landscape scene, supported by winged cherubs. Similar cartouche, with swags of fruit and flowers in bottom border. .1 Awaiting the Chase In the immediate foreground trwo huntsmen, one of whom reclines against a tree and caresses a hound. The hunters wear short doublets and broadrimmed hats. Hunters' horns are slung over their shoulders.; warp undyed wool, 7-8 ends per cm., weft dyed wool and silk, 24-40 ends per cm. |
| Credit: | Collection Minneapolis Institute of Arts; The William Hood Dunwoody Fund |
| Accession Number: | 33.23.1 |
| Artist: | Unidentified designers and cartoonists |
| Role: | Designer |
| Nationality: | Flanders |
| Added to Site: | February 28, 2009 |

