Orpheus Playing the Lyre to Hades and Persephone, from Orpheus and Eurydice or The Metamorphoses
Wauters Workshop
1675–1695
- Medium
- Wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave Warp: Count: 7 warps per cm; wool: S-ply of three Z-spun elements; diameters: 0.8–1.0 mm Weft: Count: varies from 18 to 40 wefts per cm; wool: S-ply of two Z-spun elements; pairs of S-ply of two Z-spun elements; diameters: 0.4–1.1 mm; silk: Z-ply of two S-twisted elements; diameters: 0.4–0.8 mm
- Dimensions
- 328.2 × 299.1 cm (129 3/16 × 117 3/4 in.)
- Genre
- weaving - tapestry
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
wool (textile)weaving - tapestryTextile
