About This Artwork

After a design by Antoine Caron (1521–1599)
Woven at an unknown workshop at the Manufacture du Faubourg Saint-Marcel
France, Paris

The Petitions [right part], from The Story of Artemisia, 1607/30

Wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave
182.2 x 415.7 cm (71 5/8 x 163 5/8 in.)
Gift of Charles L. Singer through the Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1890.9