A tapestry of identical design but slightly variant dimensions was sold Christie's, London, 11 May 2000, lot 165 (£16,450). That example was linked to the oeuvre of Maximilian van der Gucht (1603-1689), who founded an important tapestry manufactory with two workshops in Delft, one in Gouda and a shop in The Hague. The link was drawn from a connection to a tapestry of similar spirit and execution depicting a duck hunt and bearing the arms of the bishop Andrzej Trzebicki is in the cathedral of Wawel, Poland (N. de Reynies, La Tapisserie au XVIIe Siecle et les Collections Europeenes, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1999, p. 186, fig. 6). The Gucht atelier already existed in the 1630s but moved into the famous Spiering Cloister, the workshop of Frans and later Aert an Pieter Spiering, in 1641. He is known to have specialized in landscape scenes with figure and animal groups. Such landscape tapestries were already supplied to Prince Frederik Hendrik in 1637 while the finest group of three sets was supplied to the Swedish court in 1647 / 8 (B. von Malmborg, Slott och Herrsoten I Sverige, De Kungliga Slotten, Malmo, 1971, vol. I, p. 63, where depicted in the Audience Room of the Royal Castle, Stockholm). Gucht continued to supply Queen Christina of Sweden with tapestries of this type for her house in Rome and supplied the town hall of Delft and Leyden with similar landscape tapestries. Van der Bucht was indeed so successful that he bought the workshop of David Schaep in Gouda, while his son, Bartholomous, opened his own workshop in Den Haag which again was taken over by his father, Maximilian, in 1670 when the son died. (D. Heinz, Europienische Wandteppiche des 17. Und 18. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, pp. 108-111).