EXHIBITIONS FOR JANUARY

Abstract

fitting their rank. The background represents a pastoral scene in which a flock of sheep is being driven towards two women who are shearing. A medallion in the sky represents a shepherdess holding a sheep in her lap and surrounded by clouds. In the coloring of this tapestry the Gothic red with high lights in yellow is conspicuous in the garments; green and dark blue are also used; and these colors have all been wonderfully blended by the process of hatching, a method of shading for which Flanders was particularly famous at that period. The borders are a bewildering confusion of children, satyrs, fruits and flowers. The color scheme of the tapestry is faithfully carried out in the variegated flowers and fruits.