About This Artwork

Adapted from designs by Michiel Coxie (1499–1592)
Woven at the workshop of Gillis Ydens
Flanders, Brussels

The Diversion of the Euphrates, from The Story of Cyrus, c. 1670

Wool and silk, slit and single interlocking tapestry weave
325.4 x 404.8 cm (128 1/8 x 159 3/8 in.)
Gift of Honoré Palmer, 1938.1311