Cleopatra and Antony Enjoying Supper from The Story of Caesar and Cleopatra

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Cleopatra and Antony Enjoying Supper from The Story of Caesar and Cleopatra

After a design by Justus van Egmont (Flemish, 1601–1674)LinkedCulture matchlcp-6c2dd7b77fed

Date
c. 1680
Medium
Wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave Warp: Count: 9 warps per cm; wool: S-ply of four Z-spun elements; diameters: 0.8–1.1 mm Weft: Count: varies from 18 to 46 wefts per cm; wool: S-ply of two Z-spun elements; diameters: 0.3–0.8 mm; silk: pairs of S-ply of two Z-twisted elements; diameters: 0.6–1.0 mm
Culture
Brussels
Department
Textiles
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
49664

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To impress Antony, Cleopatra promised to organize the most lavish supper he had ever attended. The meal itself was ordinary, but at its end, Cleopatra dissolved a pearl in a cup of vinegar and drank it. This event was not recorded by Plutarch; it derives from Pliny’s Natural History (1st century A.D.).

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Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Chauncey McCormick and Mrs. Richard Ely Danielson
Provenance
Possibly the Villalonga family, Mallorca, to 1914 at the latest; sold to Charles Deering (died 1927), Marycel, Sitges, Spain, and Miami, FL, by 1914 [Koenraad Brosens, ed, 2008, 136-365, cat. 19M; on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago from Feb. 7, 1922, loan number 323.122]; given to his daughters, Mrs. Chauncey McCormick (died 1965; born Marion Deering, also Marion McCormick) and Mrs. Ely Danielson (died 1982; born Barbara Deering, also Barbara Danielson), Mar. 4, 1924 [letter from Charles Deering to Charles Hutchinson, Mar. 4, 1924; AIC Institutional Archives]; given to the Art Institute, 1944.

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AAT300014063

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