Bacchus and Ariadne from a set of The Loves of the Gods
Artwork Details
- Title: Bacchus and Ariadne from a set of The Loves of the Gods
- Designer: Designed by François Boucher (French, Paris 1703–1770 Paris)
- Manufactory: Beauvais
- Maker: Weaving Manufactory directed by André Charlemagne Charron (French, active 1754–80) and
- Maker: Weaving Manufactory directed by Jean-Baptiste Oudry (French, Paris 1686–1755 Beauvais)
- Patron: Comissioned by Count Johann Hartvig Ernst Bernstorff (Danish)
- Date: 1754
- Culture: French, Beauvais
- Medium: Wool, silk (23-25 warps per inch, 9-10 per cm.)
- Dimensions: 12 ft. × 17 ft. 6 in. (365.8 × 533.4 cm)
- Classification: Textiles-Tapestries
- Credit Line: From the Collection of James Stillman, Gift of Dr. Ernest G. Stillman, 1922
- Object Number: 22.16.2
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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François Boucher
Beauvais
designed 1749; woven possibly 1771
Multiple artists/makers
Designed 1749; Woven 1754
François Boucher
18th century
François Boucher
18th century
François Boucher
18th century
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