Michiel Coxie (I)
Netherlandish, Mechelen ca. 1499–1592 Mechelen
Michiel Coxie (I) was a Netherlandish painter and designer whose career unfolded in Mechelen, where he was born around 1499 and died in 1592. His work belongs to the Romanist current of the sixteenth-century Netherlands, blending Italianate figure types with northern traditions, and his subjects ranged from religious narrative to tapestry design. This collection holds two tapestries woven in wool and silk with silver-gilt and silver thread, at a density of roughly eighteen to nineteen warps per inch, including compositions such as The Last Supper and The Ascension. The sheets associated with these designs are dated 1540, with impressions up to that year represented.
2 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)
