Controversy over their authorship has obscured the quality of these rare tapestry cartoons.
The initial impact of the reborn museum is owed to the bravura installation of the four gigantic tapestry cartoons by Rubens.
He had just agreed to make 20 tapestry cartoons for the Infanta Isabella of Spain.
With this workshop he produced paintings and, especially after 1525, became a leading designer of tapestry cartoons and stained glass windows.
Additionally, one can discern a thread of the macabre running through Goya's work, even in his earlier tapestry cartoons.
He also made lots of furniture and seats projects as well as tapestry cartoons.
We have arrived here at the perfect balancing point between the early tapestry cartoons and the later Black Paintings.
This medium was often used for preparing tapestry cartoons in the seventeenth century.
In the 1780s he provided tapestry cartoons for the manufacture at Beauvais.
He also collaborated with other painters, providing the floral borders in portrait paintings and tapestry cartoons for Gobelins manufactory from 1687.