About This Artwork

Italy, Florence

Orphrey Fragment depicting the Flight into Egypt, 1450/1500

Silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped linen, warp-float faced satin weave with twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning and brocading wefts
22.5 x 27.4 cm (8 7/8 x 10 3/4 in.)
Chester D. Tripp Fund, 1992.1843

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, "Gloria in Excelsis Deo - Heralding a Vestment Collection," September 1996–January 1997

The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, "Renaissance Velvets and Silks," December 18, 2002–April 13, 2003