File:Knight of the Swan.jpg

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anonymous: Tapestry with the Story of Knight of the Swan   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Creator:Passchier Grenier
After Jacques Daret  (1401–1468)  wikidata:Q728249
 
Alternative names
Jaquelotte Daret
Description Southern Netherlandish painter
student of Robert Campin
Date of birth/death circa 1401–1403 after 1468
date QS:P,+1468-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1468-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Location of birth/death Tournai Tournai
Work period between circa 1418 and circa 1468
date QS:P,+1450-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1418-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1468-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location
Tournai (circa 1418
date QS:P,+1418-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
-1446), Arras (1446–1457), Bruges (?), Lille (?), Tournai (1457–1468)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1877,Q728249
Title
Tapestry with the Story of Knight of the Swan
label QS:Len,"Tapestry with the Story of Knight of the Swan"
label QS:Lpl,"Arras Historia rycerza z łabędziem"
label QS:Lfr,"Tapisserie avec l'Histoire du chevalier du cygne"
Object type tapestry
object_type QS:P31,Q184296
Date circa 1460
date QS:P571,+1460-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium wool, silk and silver thread (haute lisse)
Dimensions 479 × 413.5 cm (15.7 × 13.5 ft)
institution QS:P195,Q18820
Object history

1462: given to Jean Jouffroy (c. 1412-1473), Arras by Philip the Good (1396-1467)

circa 1870
date QS:P,+1870-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
: given to Saint Catherine Church, Kraków by Stanisław Górski (1820-1900), Stromiec
1921: transferred to Wawel Royal Castle, Kraków
Notes Philip the Good (1396-1467), Duke of Burgundy was depicted as Oriant. The story of the Knight of the Swan, or Swan Knight, is a medieval tale about a mysterious rescuer who comes in a swan-drawn boat to defend a damsel, his only condition being that he must never be asked his name.
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Source/Photographer www.wawel.krakow.pl

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