Jupiter and Callisto, c. 1680

  • Beauvais Manufactory, French

Wool, silk and silver thread

  • 115 1/4 x 89 1/2 inches (292.7 x 227.3 cm)

Gift of K. T. Keller

62.135

Made for Vincent Hotman (d.1683) and Marguerite Colbert (d.1704), (France)

1937, (Christie's, London), G. Roffe

Private collection (Spain)

1930, (The Galleries of Paul S. Van Baarn, Ltd., New York and Paris)

K. T. Keller, [1885 - 1966] (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1962-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

De la Chenaye-Desbois and Badier, DICTIONNAIRE DE LA NOBLESSE, Paris, 1864, vol. 5, p. 35. B. Jestaz, "La manufacture de Beauvais sous la direction de Béhagle: Documents inédits," BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE DE L'HISTOIRE DE L'ART FRANÇAIS, 1977, pp. 145-51 B. Jestaz, "The Beauvais Manufactory in 1690," ACTS OF THE TAPESTRY SYMPOSIUM, NOVEMBER 1976, San Francisco, 1979, pp. 187-207 Detroit, DIA, Woven Splendor: Five Centuries of European Tapestry at the Detroit Institute of Arts, July-Sept 1996, cat. no. 14, pp. 15, 56, color repro p. 57 (entry by T. Albainy)

Beauvais Manufactory, Jupiter and Callisto, c. 1680, Wool, silk and silver thread. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of K. T. Keller, 62.135.