[Sidenote: _The Circumcision and Assumption_ is illustrated in _Demotte, Les Tapisseries gothiques_, Première Série, pl. 39.]
Seven other large tapestries very closely related to these are known. They represent various episodes involving Christ and numerous allegorical figures that have not been identified. Three of these are in the collection of Baron de Zuylen du Nyevelt de Haar, two in the Burgos Cathedral, and two others have passed into private collections and been lost sight of.[15] Another smaller piece, apparently of the same series, was number X in the Morgan Collection. Three duplicates are also in Hampton Court.
The series is closely related also to the _Life of the Virgin_ set in the Royal Collection at Madrid, and also the _Presentation in the Temple_ of the Martin le Roy Collection. The cartoons are clearly the work of Maître Philippe, and the weaving was evidently done in Flanders, probably in Brussels, about 1510. Marquet de Vasselot suggests that the cartoons of the Martin le Roy piece and of the Madrid series were done after a second master under the influence of Gerard David.[16] Destrée, following Wauters, suggests Jean de Bruxelles, known author of the cartoon for the _Communion of Herkenbald_, another Maître Philippe piece, to which he sees a resemblance,[17] and Thièry repeats the claim, but on far-fetched evidence.[18]
Certainly the types are very close to those of Gerard David. Some of the figures on David's _Tree of Mary_ in the Lyons Museum[19] are repeated almost exactly, and some of the female figures are very like the Saint in the _Marriage of Catherine_ in the San Luca Academy at Rome.[20] But other types, such as Zacharias in the meeting of Christ and John, are more reminiscent of Hugo Van der Goes, being, for instance, almost identical with Joseph of Arimathea in the _Descent from the Cross_ in the National Museum, Naples,[21] even to such details as the drawing and placing of the ear. The glimpses of landscapes, too, are clearly derived from Hugo in their composition and details, and even the floreations are close to those in some of Hugo's work, notably the _Original Sin_ in the Imperial Gallery of Vienna,[22] where one finds the same upspringing sheaf of iris. The work would seem to be that of a lesser eclectic, such as the author of the _Life of Mary_ in the Bishops' Palace at Evora.