About the Artwork
The Rape of Proserpine
between 1755 and 1770
Beauvais Manufactory
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French
Unknown
Wool, silk
145 x 122 in. (368.3 x 309.9 cm)
Tapestries
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Silverman, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Soave and Mr. and Mrs. Stanford C. Stoddard
1999.1387
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Woven, in galloon, in lower right corner: A.C.C. BEAUVAIS
Provenance
(Sotheby's) (New York, New York, USA)
1999-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Darr, A. and T. Albainy, "Acquisitions of European sculpture and decorative arts at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1988 - 1999." The Burlington Magazine 142 (June 2000): p. 411, no. XIX (color ill.).
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Beauvais Manufactory, The Rape of Proserpine, between 1755 and 1770, wool, silk. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Silverman, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Soave et al., 1999.1387.
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