About This Artwork

After a design probably by Peter Ykens (1648–1695) and Pieter Spierinckx (1635–1711)
Woven at the Wauters workshop
Flanders, Antwerp

Orpheus Playing the Lyre to Hades and Persephone, from Orpheus and Eurydice or The Metamorphoses, c. 1685

Wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave
328.14 x 299.09 cm (129 3/16 x 117 3/4 in.)
Gift of Marshall Field and Company, 1952.1245