Psyche, worshipped as goddess, incurs Venus's (Aphrodite) anger. Raphael (Italian, 1483-1520) (designed after, school) [painter] Coxie, Michiel (the Elder) (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, 1499-1592) (author of design, attr.) [painter] c. 1640 Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Paris Ownership History: French & Co. Worshippers (L), including 2 putti carying urn & woman carrying burning censer, approach Psyche (R); 2 attendants stand behind Psyche; monumental columns on base & portico behind Psyche, circular domed building behind worshippers; Venus &
Psyche, worshipped as goddess, incurs Venus's (Aphrodite) anger. Raphael (Italian, 1483-1520) (designed after, school) [painter] Coxie, Michiel (the Elder) (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, 1499-1592) (author of design, attr.) [painter] c. 1640 Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Paris Ownership History: French & Co. Worshippers (L), including 2 putti carying urn & woman carrying burning censer, approach Psyche (R); 2 attendants stand behind Psyche; monumental columns on base & portico behind Psyche, circular domed building behind worshippers; Venus & Cupid in sky (L) (UPR BRD) centered by caroutche with 4 putti in roundelay dance, flanked by reclining nude male (L) & female (R) figures, & festoons with fruit & bucrania draped with string of beads terminating in tasseled cartouches; (LWR BRD) centered by cartouche with mask head, pair of rams heads & basket weave base, flanked by putti & cornucopias filled with fruit; (L & R BRD) centered by framework with pair of putti & lion head mask with fruit festoon below supported by contorted nude, male caryatid with animal (lion on L & ram on R), & with fruit festoon above supporting contorted nude figure; coats of arms in upper corners This series was copied after a series initially created in Brussels for Francis I after Raphaelesque models traditionally attributed to Michiel Coxie. This series was very popular during the first half of the 17th century & was woven in many Parisian ateliers. This composition is not included the Fénaille account of this series (Steele). The borders have some analogies with the (earlier) Paris Diana series (Château d'Anet & Metropolitan Museum) (Campbell). French & Co. stock sheet missing from archive, 57500 Fénaille, Gobelins 1 (1903-1923), 287-292 Related Works: Compositionally similar tapestry (same cartoon): GCPA 0245197 (Palazzo Quirinale); compositionally similar tapestry (borders): GCPA 0245188
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