Tapestry of the hanging of "Ovid's Metamorphoses" after Simon Vouet, workshops of the fbg Saint-Marcel, circa 1635-1645

-Tapestry of the hanging of "Ovid's Metamorphoses" after Simon Vouet, workshops of the fbg Saint-Marcel, circa 1635-1645.

- This window illustrates a theme taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses (Book X), the loves of Venus and Adonis. We see Adonis escaping from the arms of his lover near a body of water. A subject conducive to the representation of young bodies in an atmosphere of greenery. The border, elaborated with great care, constitutes a decorative element in its own right (in the lower part: a cartouche representing in its center, on a blue background, Diana lying down accompanied by her greyhound, decorated with a shell, two bucranes of goats of profiles whose horns serve as a support for garlands of foliage / in the upper part: a cartouche with a blue oval in its center left bare / the cartridges are placed on a yellow background with foliage patterns).
-The border is original, a precious element which made it possible to find the series to which this window belongs and to support its creation context. Indeed, this rich border refers to the hanging of "Ovid's Metamorphoses" after Simon Vouet woven in the Parisian workshops directed by Alexandre de Comans at Faubourg Saint-Marcel around 1635-1645 (before the creation of the Gobelins factory ), such as "The Bath of the Nymphs" exhibited at the Château de Sully-sur-Loire (Loiret). The fineness of the weaving (8 threads/cm), the quality of the design, the solid hold of the colors, corroborate this attribution.

-Very good state of conservation. The tapestry is not quite rectangular.

-Dimensions: 296 x 103.5 cm

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