David Sees Bathsheba Washing and Invites Her to His Palace from The Story of David, Brussels, ca 1526–28 (Musée National de la Renaissance, Écouen)Diana of Ephesus, after a cartoon by Perino del Vaga, Brussels, 1545, woven for Andrea Doria of Genoa (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm)
Brussels tapestry workshops produced tapestry from at least the 15th century, but the city's early production in the Late Gothic International style was eclipsed by the more prominent tapestry-weaving workshops based in Arras and Tournai. In 1477 Brussels, capital of the duchy of Brabant, was inherited by the house of Habsburg;[1] and in the same year Arras, the prominent center of tapestry-weaving in the Low Countries, was sacked and its tapestry manufacture never recovered, and Tournai and Brussels seem to have increased in importance.
^The mille-fleurs panel with the arms of Charles the Bold in the Musée Historique, Berne, which is generally agreed to have been woven in Brussels, must predate his death in January 1477.
^Souchal, Geneviève (ed.), Masterpieces of Tapestry from the Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Century: An Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 108, 1974, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France), ISBN0870990861, 9780870990861, google books
^Schneebalg-Perelman, in Gazette des Beaux-Arts70 1967, noted in H. Osborne, ed. The Oxford Guide to the Decorative Arts, s.v. "Tapestry".
^Other 15th-century tapestries attributed to Brussels include the Allegory of the Virgin as the Source (Louvre), Virgin and Child with Donorca 1600 (Musée des Tissus, Lyon), The Story of the Virgin (Madrid)