Title

King Martin entrusts the administration of the kingdom to Moncada

Author

Auwercx, Albert

?, ca. 1629 - Brussels, ca. 1709

After

Van Kessel, Jan (Antwerp, 1626 - Antwerp, 1679)

Van Herp, Willem (Antwerp, 1614 - Antwerp, 1677)

Hondt, Lambert de (II) (Mechelen, 1642 - Brussel, 1708)

Typology

School

Date

Century

Dimensions

Support

Inscriptions

On the upper noble shield: "GUILLELMUS RAYMONDUS MONCATA HUIUS NOMINIS III AUGUSTAE COMES"

On the lower noble shield: "A REGE MARTINO SENIORE HISPANIAM REPETENTE / FILY REGY AC REGNI SALUS ILLI COMMINITUR"

Mark: "BB".

Signature: "A. AWERCX". 

Observations

It is part of the tapestry series with scenes from the "History of the House of Moncada" of which 6 panels were made.

The project is based on the copper models commissioned by Luis Guillén de Moncada, 7th Duke of Montalto, around 1663 to William van Herp, Luigi Gentile, Adam-Frans van der Meulen, David Teniers and Jan van Kessel, the latter for the design of the borders.

The realization of the tapestries was postponed until 1699 when his son Fernando de Aragón y Moncada, 8th Duke of Montalto, commissioned Lambert de Hondt and the tapestry makers Albert Auwercx and Nicolas Auwercx, although the project was interrupted in 1703 due to economic difficulties. Finally his daughter Catalina de Moncada bought the six completed cloths from the Auwercx family between 1708 and 1718. Later she tried to complete the project of her father and grandfather, but it could not be done. 

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Bibliography

• Margarita García Calvo (2011): "Correspondencia entre Fernando de Aragón (1644-1713), 8.º duque de Montalto, y su agente en Bruselas sobre la realización de la tapicería de la “historia de la casa de los Moncada”", Archivo Español de Arte, vol. LXXXIV, nº 335, p. 293, il. 8.
• Guy Delmarcel, Margarita Garcia Calvo, and Koenraad Brosens (2010): "Spanish Family Pride in Flemish Wool and Silk: The Moncada and their Baroque Tapestry Collection", en Thomas P. Campbell, Elizabeth A. H. Cleland,  Tapestry in the Baroque : new aspects of production and patronage, Metropolitan Museum of Art Symposia, Yale University Press, New York, New Haven and London, p. 292, il. 11.
• M. Haro y MM. Dhios et George (1870): Catalogue des Tableaux Anciens, Porcelaines de Sevres, de Saxe et de Chine Bonheur du Jour Taisseries Peovenant de Feu M. Le Marquis de Villafranca Duc de Ferandina de Montalto..., Hôtel Drouot, Paris, pp. 38, n.º 33.

Locations

• 1718 - 1870: Collection Villafranca, Madrid (Spain) (Inventory number: 33)
• 1870: Hôtel Potocki, Paris (France)