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Embroidered panel with Grotesque decoration

Narrative scenes adapted from woodcuts by Bernard Salomon French
1560–70
Not on view
An example of the kind of work [Catherine de Medici] appreciated is the Museum's panel of yellow satin embroidered with silk threads. One of a set of three (the others are in the Musée Historique des Tissus, Lyon), it hung as a valence around the top of a four-poster bed. Various print sources were culled for the airy design of grotesques, while its five vignettes derived from Ovid's Metamorphoses- based on the myths of Europa, Actaeon, Semele, Pyramus, and Salmacis- are adapted from woodcut illustrations published by Bernard Salomon in Lyon in 1557. Its brilliant colors, exquisite design, and sumptuous material would have suited the queen's taste perfectly.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Embroidered panel with Grotesque decoration
  • Artist: Narrative scenes adapted from woodcuts by Bernard Salomon (French, ca. 1508–ca. 1561)
  • Date: 1560–70
  • Culture: French
  • Medium: Silk thread on silk
  • Dimensions: Overall (confirmed): 16 1/2 × 78 in. (41.9 × 198.1 cm)
    Frame (confirmed): 19 1/2 × 82 1/4 × 1 1/2 in. (49.5 × 208.9 × 3.8 cm)
  • Classification: Textiles-Embroidered
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1956
  • Object Number: 56.27
  • Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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