Textile Arts

Red velvet panel with two embroidered medallions

Artists

Unidentified ArtistArtist

Description

Silk tent stitch embroidery depicting scenes of a queen kneeling before laurel around beardless men in classical dress (Alexander?) (top) and a woman with an incense burner and Cupid in a landscape (bottom), mounted on red cut silk velvet.

Classification

Textile Arts

Technique

Embroidery

Medium

Red velvet with silk embroidery

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Paintings, Sculpture & Decorative Arts

Dimensions

49.5 x 92.08 x 92.08 cm (19 1/2 x 36 1/4 x 36 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

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