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Boreas and Orithyia from a set of scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses

René-Antoine Houasse →

designed ca. 1690, woven before 1730

Wool, silk, metal thread (19-22 warps per inch, 7-9 per cm.) · 11 ft. 8 in. × 14 ft. 11 in. (355.6 × 454.7 cm) (as measured by Textile Conservation in 1984)

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Boreas and Orithyia from a set of scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses. by René-Antoine Houasse. designed ca. 1690, woven before 1730. Wool, silk, metal thread (19-22 warps per inch, 7-9 per cm.). Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Boreas and Orithyia from a set of scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses — René-Antoine Houasse · designed ca. 1690, woven before 1730 · Metropolitan Museum of Art · Arcz