Boreas and Orithyia from a set of scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses

Medium

Wool, silk, metal thread (19-22 warps per inch, 7-9 per cm.)

Dimensions

11 ft. 8 in. × 14 ft. 11 in. (355.6 × 454.7 cm) (as measured by Textile Conservation in 1984)

Classification

Textiles-Tapestries

Culture

French, Beauvais

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Frances L. Kellogg, 1977

Accession Number

1977.435

Rights

Public Domain

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