Red velvet panel with two embroidered medallions
18th century
Artists
Description
Silk tent stitch embroidery depicting scenes of the sacrifice of Iphegenia?" (top) and a woman uncovering the sleeping Cupid (bottom), mounted on red cut silk velvet.
Dimensions
49.2 × 104.1 cm (19 3/8 × 41 in.)
Provenance
Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943
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