Diana and Actaeon from a set of Ovid's Metamorphoses
Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins|Jean Jans the Younger
designed before 1680, woven late 17th–early 18th century · Wool, silk (20 warps per inch, 8 per cm.) · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
From a set of tapestries depicting stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses, this hanging illustrates the moment when Acteon, having accidentally seen the goddess Diana and her nymphs bathing, begins to change into a stag.
- Artist
- Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins|Jean Jans the Younger
- Date
- designed before 1680, woven late 17th–early 18th century
- Medium
- Wool, silk (20 warps per inch, 8 per cm.)
- Culture
- French, Paris
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. George S. Amory, in memory of her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Amory Sibley Carhart, 1964
