Justitia (Justice) from Los Honores

1. Cardinal Érard de la Marck, Prince-Bishop of Liège (died 1538), from 1525/32 to 1538; by descent to his godson, Robert III de la Marck, Count of Arenberg (died 1544); by descent to his sister, Countess Marguerite de la Marck, Princess of Arenberg (died 1599), given to her son, Robert de Ligne, Prince of Arenberg and Barbançon (died 1614); sold to his brother, Charles de Ligne, Prince of Arenberg, Duke of Aarschot (died 1616), 1602; by descent to his son Philippe Charles, Prince of Arenberg, Duke of Aarschot and Croy (died 1640); by descent to his son, Philippe François, Duke of Arenberg (died 1674); probably by descent to his brother Charles-Eugène, Duke of Arenberg, Aarschot and Croy (died 1681); probably by descent to his son Philippe-Charles-François, Duke of Arenberg, Aarschot and Croy (died 1691); probably by descent to his son Leopold-Philippe, Prince and Duke of Arenberg, Duke of Aarschot and Croy (died 1754) and his wife Marie-Françoise Pignatelli, Princess of Bisaccia and Contess of Egmont (died 1766); probably by descent to their son, Charles-Marie-Raymond, Duke of Arenberg and Aarschot (died 1778); probably by descent to his son, Louis-Engelbert, Duke of Arenberg, Aarschot and Meppen, Prince of Recklinghausen (died 1820); probably by descent to his son, Prosper-Louis, Duke of Arenberg, Aarschot and Meppen, Prince of Recklinghausen (died 1861); probably by descent to his son, Engelbert-Auguste, Duke of Arenberg, Aarschot and Meppen, Prince of Recklinghausen (d. 1875); by descent to his son Engelbert-Marie, Duke of Arenberg, Aarschot and Meppen, Prince of Recklinghausen (died 1949); probably by descent to his son, Engelbert-Charles, Duke of Arenberg, Aarschot and Meppen, Prince of Recklinghausen (died 1974); sold, Sotheby’s, London, Duke of Meppen sale, October 17, 1958, lot 138; probably to Perez and Company (dealers), London; sold Galerie Fisher, Lucerne, lot 428, June 21-27, 1960; Wildenstein and Company (dealers), New York, before 1965: sold to Col. C. Michael Paul (died 1980), New York, as of 1965; given to the Art Institute, 1969.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Jan-Karel Steppe and Guy Delmarcel, "Les tapisserie du Cardinal de La Marck, prince-eveque de Liege," Revue de l'Art 25 (1974): 46-47, fig. 8.
• Christa C. Mayer Thurman, "Tapestry: The Purposes, Form, and Function of the Medium from Its Inception until Today." In Acts of the Tapestry Symposium, November 1976, edited by Anna Grey Bennett (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francico, 1979), 4-6, figs. 1-3 (ill.).
• Guy Delmarcel, Los Honores: Flemish Tapestries for the Emperor Charles V (Snoeck-Ducaju and Zoon/Pandora, 2000), 37-40, fig. 37.
• Koenraad Brosens, ed., Christa C. Mayer Thurman, gen. ed., European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat., [exhibition: "The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago"] (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2008), 74-81, cat. 8B (ill.).

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Prudentia (Prudence) from Los Honores

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Falcon Hunt

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Pastoral Scene: Men Hunting Birds, Couples Seated on Ground

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Alexander Kneeling before Jaddus at the Gates of Jerusalem [left section] from The Story of Alexander the Great

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