Cleveland Museum of Art

Set of Ovid's Metamorphoses

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Date: 1704–31
Medium: tapestry weave
Culture: France, 18th century
Department: Textiles
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 133712

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Each tapestry illustrates a scene from Metamorphoses , written by the ancient Roman poet Ovid. The poem is comprised of fifteen books and contains more than 250 myths. These tapestries were produced in Paris by the royal Gobelins Manufactory during the 1700s. Gobelins was founded in 1662 for the purpose of furnishing French royal homes with the highest quality textiles. Gold and silver thread and silk were woven together to create luxurious tapestries like these. During the French Revolution, Gobelins tapestries were sometimes disassembled to harvest the gold threads.

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Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Matthias Plum
Provenance: ?–1956: Mrs. Matthias Plum (Bertha Andrews Rainey Plum) [1909-1976], New York, NY, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1956–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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18th-Century French Decorative Arts
These objects represent the luxury decorative traditions of 18th-century France, unified by their use of refined materials (tapestry weave, Savonnerie knotted pile, carved wood), classical themes (Ovid's Metamorphoses, S
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