# PEEMANS, Gerard [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1625–1710 - Profession: tapestry weaver - School: Flemish ## Biography Flemish tapestry weaver, active in Brussels from 1660 to c. 1710. He was the son-in-law of the weaver Geraert van der Streecken \(died 1677\). At the time he acquired a privilege in 1665 he had six looms working. In the period 1703-07 there were still four. He repeatedly collaborated with Willem van Leefdael \(1632-1688\), for instance for the sets of the Acts of the Apostles \(Museo Arqueologico, Madrid\), Caesar and Cleopatra after Justus van Egmont \(Chicago\), Titus and Vespasian after Charles Poerson \(1609-1667\). He produced most of the editions of Zenobia after Justus van Egmont \(Brussels; Madrid; Lucca, Palazzo Mansi\), also Alexander after Charles Le Brun \(Würzburg\), Months after David III Teniers \(1638-1685\) \(Vienna\). ## Related artworks - [Story of Caesar and Cleopatra]() - [Story of Caesar and Cleopatra]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()