Aeneas and Dido take shelter in cave. Romanelli, Giovanni Francesco (Italian, 1610-1662) (cartoon creator) [painter] Wauters, Michel (Netherlandish (after 1600), ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1655-1679 Tapestry Dimensions: H x W 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. Inscriptions: Woven signature in lower guard, right: M. WAVTERS While hunting, Dido & Ae
Aeneas and Dido take shelter in cave. Romanelli, Giovanni Francesco (Italian, 1610-1662) (cartoon creator) [painter] Wauters, Michel (Netherlandish (after 1600), ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1655-1679 Tapestry Dimensions: H x W 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. Inscriptions: Woven signature in lower guard, right: M. WAVTERS While hunting, Dido & Aeneas caught in storm, & they take shelter in cave; Aeneas covers Dido with cloak, while cherubim hover in sky above (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; iconographically similar tapestry, GCPA 0236375
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