Cupid preventing Armida from killing Rinaldo. Vouet, Simon (French, 1590-1649) (designed after) [painter] c. 1635-1650 Tapestry Dimensions: H 11' x W 12'6" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Paris Ownership History: L. Breitmeyer coll., Rushton Hall, Kittering, England. Sold at Christie's, 7/23/1930. French & Co. purchased from Spanish Art Gallery, invoiced 7/4/1930; sold to the Rijksmuseum 1/1966. Netherlands, North Holland, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum. In wooded setting, Armida stands over sleeping Rinaldo as Cupid points bow & arrow at her (BRD) floral garland

Cupid preventing Armida from killing Rinaldo. Vouet, Simon (French, 1590-1649) (designed after) [painter] c. 1635-1650 Tapestry Dimensions: H 11' x W 12'6" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Paris Ownership History: L. Breitmeyer coll., Rushton Hall, Kittering, England. Sold at Christie's, 7/23/1930. French & Co. purchased from Spanish Art Gallery, invoiced 7/4/1930; sold to the Rijksmuseum 1/1966. Netherlands, North Holland, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum. In wooded setting, Armida stands over sleeping Rinaldo as Cupid points bow & arrow at her (BRD) floral garland punctuated with cameo profile busts, inner & outer narrow bands of parsley leaf spiral; (UPR BRD) centered by cartouche with classical nude figure & putto, framed by pair of sirens, each embraced by a putto with his arm around her (impinges on central field); (LWR BRD) cartouche with mythological scene; 3 putti above cartouch flanked by quivers & banners (impinges on central field); (L & R BRD) cartouche with classical figure flanked by pair of putti; cartouches with cameo heads in corners Three panels in set. French & Co. stock sheet in archive, 38717-c Fénaille, Gobelins 1 (1903-1923), 319-328 Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0242268-0242269, 0242286-0242287, 0244404-0244405, 0184504-0184505; compositionally similar tapestry (same cartoon): GCPA 0242270 (Timken / Barberini set)

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