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The Petitions [right part]

A tapestry depicting a fountain that features two nude females holding a platform on which another nude female lies, her arm around a moose.
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  • A tapestry depicting a fountain that features two nude females holding a platform on which another nude female lies, her arm around a moose.

Date:

1607/30

Artist:

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

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Artist

Antoine Caron (Designer)

Title

The Petitions [right part]

Place

France (Object made in)

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Made 1607–1630

Medium

Wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave

Dimensions

182.2 × 415.7 cm (71 5/8 × 163 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Charles L. Singer through the Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago

Reference Number

1890.9

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