The Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 23 (1988)

THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART JOURNAL | VOLUME 23

"Ovid's Metamorphoses: A Gobelins Tapestry Series"

Standen, Edith A.

1988

43 pages

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Edith Standen

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Boreas and Orithyia from a set of scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses, René Antoine Houasse French, Wool, silk, metal thread (19-22 warps per inch, 7-9 per cm.), French, Beauvais — Boreas and Orithyia from a set of scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses
René Antoine Houasse
designed ca. 1690, woven before 1730

Diana and Actaeon from a set of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins French, Wool, silk (20 warps per inch, 8 per cm.), French, Paris — Diana and Actaeon from a set of Ovid's Metamorphoses
Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins
designed before 1680, woven late 17th–early 18th century