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Shield of Louis XIV: from the "Mythological Subjects after Raphael" Series
c. 1687/1691
Bon Boulogne (Designer) French Claude Guy Halle (Designer) French Jean Lemoine Lorrain (Designer) French Gobelins Tapestry Manufactory (Manufacturer) French, active 1662 - present
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Overall: 73 × 24 inches (185.4 × 61 cm)
Tapestries
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of K. T. Keller
46.251
Public Domain
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Fenaille, Maurice, ETAT GENERAL DES TAPISSERIES DE LA MANUFACTURIE DES GOBELINS DEPUIS SON ORIGINE JUSQU'A NOS JOURS 1600-1900, 5 vols., Paris, 1903-23, vol. 2, pp. 246-78
Göbel, H., WANDTEPPICHE, II: DIE ROMANISCHEN LÄNDER, 2 vols, Leipzig, 1928, vol 1, pp. 138-40
Weibel, Adele Coulin, "A Fragment of a Gobelins Border," Bulletin of the DIA, vol. 26, 1947, p. 62 (ill)
Standen, E. A., "The 'Sujets de la Fable' Gobelins Tapestries," THE ART BULLETIN, vol. 46, June 1964, pp 43-57
Ypersele de Strihou, A., and P. van, LAEKEN, Brussels, 1970, pp 280, 287-9, 296-300, 302, 305, 306
Standen, E. A., EUROPEAN POST-MEDIEVAL TAPESTRIES AND RELATED HANGINGS IN THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, 2 vols, New York, 1985, vol 1, pp 285-6, 291-3
Detroit, DIA, WOVEN SPLENDOR: FIVE CENTURIES OF EUROPEAN TAPESTRY AT THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS, July-Sept 1996, mentioned in Checklist, p. 75.
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Bon Boulogne; Claude Guy Halle; Jean Lemoine Lorrain; et al., Shield of Louis XIV: from the "Mythological Subjects after Raphael" Series, c. 1687/1691. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of K. T. Keller, 46.251.
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