The Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 10 (1975)

THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART JOURNAL | VOLUME 10

"The Memorable Judgment of Sancho Panza: A Gobelins Tapestry in the Metropolitan Museum"

Standen, Edith A.

1975

10 pages

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Edith Standen

Met Art in Publication

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

1724

The Memorable Judgment of Sancho Panza from a series of tapestries with scenes from Don Quixote (number twenty-four in a series of twenty-eight), Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins French, Wool, silk (18-21 warps per inch, 8 per cm.), French, Paris — The Memorable Judgment of Sancho Panza from a series of tapestries with scenes from Don Quixote (number twenty-four in a series of twenty-eight)
Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins
designed 1727–55, woven April 1752–Dec. 24, 1754

Design for a Tapestry Seat of a Sofa, Charles Antoine Coypel French, Gouache with oil. Silhouetted and laid down on mount with soft yellow wash surround within two black-ink border lines. — Design for a Tapestry Seat of a Sofa
Charles Antoine Coypel
1721