Mercury orders Aeneas to leave. Romanelli, Giovanni Francesco (Italian, 1610-1662) (designed after) [painter] Wauters, Michel (Netherlandish (after 1600), ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1655-1679 Tapestry Dimensions: H 411 x W 337 cm Tapestry Materials/Techniques: ; wool & silk Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Antwerp Ownership History: French & Co. Francis F. Prentiss coll. Gift of Mrs. Francis F. Prentiss (1915). United States, Ohio, Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, accno. Mercury hovers over reclining Aeneas, urging him to leave Carthage (L & R BRD) spiral (Solomonic)
Mercury orders Aeneas to leave. Romanelli, Giovanni Francesco (Italian, 1610-1662) (designed after) [painter] Wauters, Michel (Netherlandish (after 1600), ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1655-1679 Tapestry Dimensions: H 411 x W 337 cm Tapestry Materials/Techniques: ; wool & silk Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Antwerp Ownership History: French & Co. Francis F. Prentiss coll. Gift of Mrs. Francis F. Prentiss (1915). United States, Ohio, Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, accno. Mercury hovers over reclining Aeneas, urging him to leave Carthage (L & R BRD) spiral (Solomonic) columns with twisting garlands of flowers; (UPR BRD) garlands of flowers with putti flank central, empty cartouche; (LWR BRD) sets of sea-monsters with shell flank military trophies in center Romanelli's cartoons have been dated 8 out of 6 of the original cartoons survive at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena. French & Co. stock sheet missing from archive, 1070 Delmarcel, Flemish Tapestry (1999), 295-298, Related Works: Panels in set: 0236371-0236374, 0237800-0237806, 0237807-0237809, 0184627-0184635, 0236934-0236937; compositionally similar tapestry: GCPA 0238111
Size: 7718px × 9573px
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