Flora and Zephyrus (from Set of Ovid's Metamorphoses)

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Flora and Zephyrus (from Set of Ovid's Metamorphoses)

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Date
1704–1731
Medium
tapestry weave
Culture
France, 18th century
Department
Textiles
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
133714

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In an abundant garden of trees and flowers, the goddess Flora sits beneath a vase of luscious flowers as her husband, the west wind Zephyrus, carried by a white cloud, reaches out to crown her with a floral chaplet. In this tapestry, Zephyrus’s wings resemble those of a butterfly or moth rather than a bird. The ravishing landscape echoes Flora and Zephyrus as springtime divinities. The parrot in the foreground is a colorful intermediary between the viewer and the gods represented in this tapestry. 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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  • Representative object from the topic 18th-Century French Decorative Arts
    18th-Century French Decorative Arts

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