AUBUSSON, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH HISTORICAL TAPESTRY
AUBUSSON, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY
Woven in silks and wools, probably depicting Artemisia being presented the plans for the Mausoleum, with a courtly dressed lady seated on a throne beneath a canopy, being presented architectural drawings and waited upon by female attendands, within a beige and brown slip, floral border and blue outer slip, minor reweaving
9 ft. 4 in. x 15 ft. 10 in. (285 cm. x 478 cm.)

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Queen Artemisia, who succeeded her husband Mausolus on his death in 353 B.C. and raised a great monument (Mausoleum) to his memory at Halicarnassus, often symbolized a widow's devotion to her husband. The written inspiration for the series of tapestries was the epic story composed by Nicolas Houel in 1562 in honor of Catherine de' Medici.

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