Apollo and Muses on Mount Parnassus. Majoli, Clemente (Italian, b. ) (author of design, cartoon creator) [painter] Riviera, Maria Maddelena della (Italian, act. ) (workshop) [weaver] c 1662-1663 Tapestry Dimensions: H 13'7" x W 9' Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: Italian Weaving Center: , LazioRome Ownership History: Barberini coll. Charles Mather Ffoulke coll. (Washington, ). French & Co. purchased from Mary de Espirito Santa Silva 4/1/1955 (or, Parke-Bernet, Twombly sale, 1/6-8/1955); sold to R. E. Rokhaar 12/14/1963. France, Paris, Paris,

Apollo and Muses on Mount Parnassus. Majoli, Clemente (Italian, b. ) (author of design, cartoon creator) [painter] Riviera, Maria Maddelena della (Italian, act. ) (workshop) [weaver] c 1662-1663 Tapestry Dimensions: H 13'7" x W 9' Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: Italian Weaving Center: , LazioRome Ownership History: Barberini coll. Charles Mather Ffoulke coll. (Washington, ). French & Co. purchased from Mary de Espirito Santa Silva 4/1/1955 (or, Parke-Bernet, Twombly sale, 1/6-8/1955); sold to R. E. Rokhaar 12/14/1963. France, Paris, Paris, Galerie Yves Mikaeloff. In wooded setting, Apollo seated with lyre surounded by Muses, 1 carries theater mask, 1 holds horn (UPR BRD) centered by curling cartouche with satyr mask with shells flanked by fruit-filled cornucopiae on either side; (LWR BRD) centered by laurel-wreathed curling cartouche with 3 bees (Barberini emblems) supported by young satyrs & festoons Documents confirm that the tapestry was woven without side borders, probably to fit between 2 windows. French & Co. stock sheet in archive, 55810-e Adelson, European Tapestry (1994), 395-405 Göbel, Wandteppiche II:1 (1928), 420 Göbel, Wandteppiche II:2 (1928), 435 Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0242770-0242772, "Apollo & Daphne" & "Latona with the infant twins Apollo & Diana transforming the Lycian peasants into frogs", location unknown (Adelson, figs. 163, 166)

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