  
  About the Artwork
  
  
  Title
  The Animal Tamers, from the "Grotesques" series
  
  
  Artwork Date
  between 1689 and 1732
  
  
  
  
  Makers
  
  
  Jean Baptiste Monnoyer  (Designer)
  French, 1636-1699
  Beauvais Manufactory  (Manufacturer)
  French
  
  
  
  Medium
  Wool, silk
  
  
  Dimensions
  108 &Atilde;&#151; 153 1/2 inches (274.3 cm &Atilde;&#151; 3 m 89.9 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Tapestries
  
  
  Department
  European Sculpture and Dec Arts
  
  
  Credit
  Gift of K. T. Keller
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum&acirc;&#128;&#153;s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems&acirc;&#128;&#148;no longer assigned&acirc;&#128;&#148;that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  62.181
  
  
  Copyright
  Public Domain
  
  
  
