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 Feast [central part], from The Story of Artemisia, 1607/30

Wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave
189.7 x 402.1 cm (74 3/4 x 157 3/8 in.)
Gift of Charles L. Singer through the Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1890.10