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| Title | Women Hunting the Fox |
| Artist | Unidentified designers and cartoonists |
| Date | c. 1650 |
| Institution | Minneapolis Institute of Arts |
| Location | Not on view. |
| Medium: | Textiles, Textile-Tapestry | Wool, silk; tapestry weave |
| Size: | 159 1/2 x 150 3/4 in. (405.13 x 382.91 cm) |
| Creation Place: | Europe, Belgium (Flanders) |
| Culture: | Europe, Belgium (Flanders) |
| Style: | 17th century |
| Physical Description: | One of 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 rams' heads. Embellishment of festoons, pendant bunches of fruits and flowers. Top border with scrolled, oblong cartouch in center, which contains a miniature landscape scene, supported by winged cherubs. Similar cartouche, with swags of fruit and flowers in bottom border. Hunting the Deer Rolling countryside with sturdy elm at left. In immediate foreground a huntsman holding spear and sounding horn, in middle distance one of his companions on horseback and another on foot, pursue the deet who advances towards the left.; Warp undyed wool, 7½-8 ends per cm., waft dyed wool and silk, 24-28 ends per cm. |
| Credit: | Collection Minneapolis Institute of Arts; The William Hood Dunwoody Fund |
| Accession Number: | 33.23.2 |
| Artist: | Unidentified designers and cartoonists |
| Role: | Designer |
| Nationality: | Flanders |
| Added to Site: | February 28, 2009 |
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