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

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