About This Artwork

Adapted from designs by Michiel Coxie (1499–1592)
Woven at the workshop of Albert Auwercx (1629–1709)
Flanders, Brussels

Cyrus Defeats Spargapises, from The Story of Cyrus, c. 1670

Wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave
384.8 x 412.1 cm (151 1/2 x 162 1/4 in.)
Gift of Honoré Palmer, 1938.1312