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Title: Bacchus and Ariadne from a set of The Loves of the Gods
Designer:
Designed by François Boucher (French, Paris 1703–1770 Paris)
Manufactory:
Beauvais
Maker:
Weaving Manufactory directed by André Charlemagne Charron (French, active 1754–80) and
Maker:
Weaving Manufactory directed by Jean-Baptiste Oudry (French, Paris 1686–1755 Beauvais)
Patron:
Comissioned by Count Johann Hartvig Ernst Bernstorff (Danish)
Date: 1754
Culture: French, Beauvais
Medium: Wool, silk (23-25 warps per inch, 9-10 per cm.)
Dimensions: 12 ft. × 17 ft. 6 in. (365.8 × 533.4 cm)
Classification: Textiles-Tapestries
Credit Line: From the Collection of James Stillman, Gift of Dr. Ernest G. Stillman, 1922
Accession Number: 22.16.2
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