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

Textiles

c. 1685

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

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artists: Wauters Workshop (Manufacturer) , Pieter Spierinckx , Peter Ykens
Title: Orpheus Playing the Lyre to Hades and Persephone, from Orpheus and Eurydice or The Metamorphoses
Places: Flanders (Object made in:), Antwerp (Object made in:)
Date: Made 1675-1695
Medium: Wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave Warp: Count: 7 warps per cm; wool: S-ply of three Z-spun elements; diameters: 0.8–1.0 mm Weft: Count: varies from 18 to 40 wefts per cm; wool: S-ply of two Z-spun elements; pairs of S-ply of two Z-spun elements; diameters: 0.4–1.1 mm; silk: Z-ply of two S-twisted elements; diameters: 0.4–0.8 mm
Inscriptions: Signed: MW
Dimensions: 328.2 × 299.1 cm (129 3/16 × 117 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Marshall Field and Company
Reference Number: 1952.1245
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Wendy Hefford, “The Chicago Pygmalion and the ‘English Metamorphisis.’” In The Art Institute of Chicago Centennial Lectures, Museum Studies 10 (Chicago: Contemporary Books, Inc., 1983), 99.
Dora Heinz, Europäische Tapisseriekunst des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts: Die Geschichte ihrer Produktionsstätten und ihrer künstlerischen Zielsetzungen (Böhlau Verlag, 1995), 74.
Christa C. Mayer Thurman and Koenraad Brosens, “Flemish Tapestries in the Collection of The Art Institute of Chicago.” In Flemish Tapestry in European and American Collections: Studies in Honour of Guy Delmarcel, ed. Koenraad Brosens, (Brepols Publishers, 2003), 171-184, fig. 3.
Koenraad Brosens, ed., Christa C. Mayer Thurman, gen. ed., European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat., [exhibition: “The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago”] (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2008) 199-206, cat. 28 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Tapestries from the Permanent Collection, June 30-Sept. 30, 1979.
Art Institute of Chicago, Regenstein Hall, The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestry, Nov. 1, 2008–Jan. 4, 2009.

Marshall Field and Co., Chicago, by June 19, 1952 [incoming receipt, RX646, June 19, 1952; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1952.

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