Bed valances and side curtains

Unknown Artist

ca. 1700

Bed valances and side curtains by Unknown Artist

Medium

Canvas; silk and wool embroidery in gros and petit point

Dimensions

Overall (.1): 19 1/4 × 80 1/4 in. (48.9 × 203.8 cm); Overall (.2): 19 1/4 × 81 1/2 in. (48.9 × 207 cm); Overall (.3): 19 1/2 × 66 1/2 in. (49.5 × 168.9 cm); Overall (.4): 17 1/2 × 80 in. (44.5 × 203.2 cm); Overall (.5): 17 1/2 × 79 in. (44.5 × 200.7 cm); Overall (.6): 17 1/2 × 66 in. (44.5 × 167.6 cm); Overall (.7): 10 ft. 4 in. × 31 1/2 in. (315 × 80 cm); Overall (.8): 10 ft. 2 in. × 31 1/2 in. (309.9 × 80 cm)

Classification

Textiles-Embroidered

Culture

French

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1953

Accession Number

53.2.1–.8

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