Coverlet for a bed (Lit à la duchesse en impériale)

Beauvais

ca. 1780–90

Coverlet for a bed (Lit à la duchesse en impériale) by Beauvais

Medium

Silk and wool (20-25 warps per inch, 8-11 per centimeter)

Dimensions

Overall:: 10 ft. 10 in. × 10 ft. 2 in. (330.2 × 309.9 cm) Central Tapestry Panel: 85 × 65 in. (215.9 × 165.1 cm)

Classification

Textiles-Tapestries

Culture

French, Beauvais

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Kingdon Gould, in memory of his mother, Edith Kingdon Gould, 1923

Accession Number

23.235c

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