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Boreas and Orithyia from a set of scenes from Ovid's Metamorphosesclick to zoom
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Boreas and Orithyia from a set of scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses

René Antoine Houasse
Medium
Wool, silk, metal thread (19-22 warps per inch, 7-9 per cm.)
Dimensions
11 ft. 8 in. × 14 ft. 11 in. (355.6 × 454.7 cm) (as measured by Textile Conservation in 1984)
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Classification
Textiles-Tapestries
Dated
designed ca. 1690, woven before 1730
Pixels
3941 × 3116
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René Antoine Houasse. Boreas and Orithyia from a set of scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses, designed ca. 1690, woven before 1730. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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