The empress Zenobia is brought as a prisoner before the Roman emperor Aurelian. Photograph after J. van Egmont.

1 photograph : photoprint, albumen ; image 41 x 58.3 cm

Zenobia ad Aurelianum captive ducitur

Edith Appleton Standen, European post-medieval tapestries and related hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, volume 1, New York, N.Y.: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, p. 208

Guy Delmarcel, Flemish tapestry from the 15th to the 18th century, Tielt, Belgium, 1999, pp. 230, 240-241

Guy Ahlsell de Toulza, 'Les tapisseries bruxelloises de Zénobie, reine de Palmyre, au château de Saint-Géry (Tarn)', Mémoires de la Société archéologiques du Midi de la France, 2005, vol. 65, pp. 215-230 (this composition on p. 220, no. 7, and p. 223, fig. 8)

Wellcome Collection 3086026i

The literary source is Jean Tristan de Saint-Amans, Commentaires historiques contenant l'histoire générale des empereurs, impératrices, césars et tyrans de l' empire romain, Paris 1644 (Ahlsell de Toulza, op. cit., p. 228)

After a tapestry attributed to the workshop of Geraert Peemans after a design by Justus von Egmont. It may be the weaving in the Royal Museum of Art and History, Brussels, from the collection of tapestries that were sold at auction in Paris in 1928 (Catalogue d'une suite de quinze tapisseries de Bruxelles, du XVIIIè siècle, décorant le château de Saint-Géry (Tarn) et appartenant à Mme O'B... tableaux anciens, dessins anciens, porcelaines et faïences anciennes, terres cuites..., Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 15 Juin 1928). The vendor was Marie Thérèse Elisabeth O'Byrne (1852-1946), widow of Henry O'Byrne (1844-1898). Alternatively, one of the other weavings of this composition such as the tapestry in the cathedral of Segovia (as of 2017) or in the Camere di parata, Palazzo Mansi, Lucca