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Title:Fragments with Three Cardinals (from the Heroes Tapestries)
Date:ca. 1400–1410
Culture:South Netherlandish
Medium:Wool warp, wool wefts
Dimensions:Overall: 56 x 110 1/2in. (142.2 x 280.7cm)
Classification:Textiles-Tapestries
Credit Line:Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1947
Object Number:47.101.5a–c
Joel Joseph Duveen ; Baron Arthur Schickler 1828–1919, château Martinvast, Normandy (from about 1872) ; Count and Countess Hubert de Pourtalès, château de Martinvast, Normandy (sold 1936, through Guiraud) ; [ Brummer Gallery, Paris and New York (1936-1947) ]
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