The Month of June/The Sign of Cancer, from The Grotesque Months, Paris, c. 1726. The god Mercury, a rooster, a goat, and miniature scene showing Mercury's betrayal and murder of the giant Argus. Woven at the Manufacture Royale des Gobelins, after a design by Claude III Audran.

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