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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 Appleton Standen

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
René Antoine Houasse
Beauvais
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
Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins
Jean Jans the Younger
designed before 1680, woven late 17th–early 18th century