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A PARIS LATE RENAISSANCE ALLEGORICAL TAPESTRY
LAST QUARTER 17TH CENTURY
Worked in colors and depicting Pygmalion, the legendary King of Cyprus discovering Galatea, the statue he carved from ivory and prayed to Venus wishing for a wife as beautiful as the image he created, coming to life attended by Cupid about to lose an arrow, within classical ruins scattered with sculptor's tools and a forestscape in the distance, within a foliate border woven with bead-and-reel banding (restorations) - 11ft. x 7ft. 10in. (3m. 36cm. x 2m. 40cm.)
LAST QUARTER 17TH CENTURY
Worked in colors and depicting Pygmalion, the legendary King of Cyprus discovering Galatea, the statue he carved from ivory and prayed to Venus wishing for a wife as beautiful as the image he created, coming to life attended by Cupid about to lose an arrow, within classical ruins scattered with sculptor's tools and a forestscape in the distance, within a foliate border woven with bead-and-reel banding (restorations) - 11ft. x 7ft. 10in. (3m. 36cm. x 2m. 40cm.)