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''Hunting of Birds with a Hawk and a Bow'' is a 16th-century tapestry in the collection of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...
. Woven from dyed wool and silk thread, the tapestry is part of a larger series of hunting tapestries attributed to the
Southern Netherlands The Southern Netherlands, also called the Catholic Netherlands, were the parts of the Low Countries belonging to the Holy Roman Empire which were at first largely controlled by Habsburg Spain (Spanish Netherlands, 1556–1714) and later by the A ...
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Tapestries Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 16th century in art {{Met-stub