The Offering to Bacchus (from a set of five Berain Grotesques)
designed ca. 1688, woven ca. 1690–1711
Medium
Wool, silk (21-27 warps per inch, 8-9 per cm.)
Dimensions
9 ft. 7 in. × 80 in. (292.1 × 203.2 cm)
Classification
Textiles-Tapestries
Culture
French, Beauvais
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of John M. Schiff, 1977
Accession Number
1977.437.4
Tags
About the Artist
Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer|Philippe Béhagle|Beauvais|Jean Berain|Guy Louis Vernansal the Elder · 1636–1699
Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (1636-1699) was a Franco-Flemish painter who became the most distinguished and formative still life and flower painter of the French Baroque period. Born in Lille, he trained in Antwerp where he absorbed the techniques of Flemish masters before moving to Paris by 1650. Patronized by Charles Le Brun, Louis XIV's Minister of Arts, Monnoyer worked extensively on decorative pain...