Apollo exchanges gifts with Mercury (Hermes) while tending Laomedon's flock. Majoli, Clemente (Italian, b. ) (author of design, cartoon creator) [painter] Riviera, Maria Maddelena della (Italian, act. ) (workshop) [weaver] completed by August 2, 1661 Tapestry Dimensions: H 13'9" x W 15'4" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: Italian Weaving Center: , LazioRome Ownership History: Barberini coll. Charles Mather Ffoulke coll. (Washington, ). French & Co. purchased from Mary de Espirito Santa Silva 4/1/1955 (or, Parke-Bernet, Twombly sale, 1/6-8/1955

Apollo exchanges gifts with Mercury (Hermes) while tending Laomedon's flock. Majoli, Clemente (Italian, b. ) (author of design, cartoon creator) [painter] Riviera, Maria Maddelena della (Italian, act. ) (workshop) [weaver] completed by August 2, 1661 Tapestry Dimensions: H 13'9" x W 15'4" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: Italian Weaving Center: , LazioRome Ownership History: Barberini coll. Charles Mather Ffoulke coll. (Washington, ). French & Co. purchased from Mary de Espirito Santa Silva 4/1/1955 (or, Parke-Bernet, Twombly sale, 1/6-8/1955); sold to Marcello Guidi 11/18/1963. In landscape setting Apollo, seated & holding musical instrument, hands cadeusis to Mercury (Hermes), cattle graze in landscape, structures visible in distant R (UPR BRD) centered by curling cartouche with satyr mask with shells flanked by fruit-filled cornucopiae on either side; (LWR BRD) centered by laurel-wreathed curling cartouche with 3 bees (Barberini emblems) supported by young satyrs & festoons; (L & R BRD) female term carrying vase of flowers on head French & Co. stock sheet in archive, 55810-b Adelson, European Tapestry (1994), 395-405 Göbel, Wandteppiche II:1 (1928), 420 Göbel, Wandteppiche II:2 (1928), 435 Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0242770-0242772, "Apollo & Daphne" & "Latona with the infant twins Apollo & Diana transforming the Lycian peasants into frogs", location unknown (Adelson, figs. 163, 166)

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