Venus and Adonis, c. 1680

  • Beauvais Manufactory, French

Wool, silk and silver thread

  • 115 1/4 × 89 1/2 inches (292.7 × 227.3 cm)

Gift of K. T. Keller

62.136

Made for Vincent Hotman (d.1683) and Marguerite Colbert (d.1704), (France)

1937, (Christie's, London), G. Roffe

Private collection (Spain)

1930, (The Galleries of Paul S. Van Baarn, Ltd., New York and Paris)

K. T. Keller, [1885 - 1966] (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1962-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Detroit, DIA, WOVEN SPLENDOR: FIVE CENTURIES OF EUROPEAN TAPESTRY AT THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS, July-Sept 1996, p. 56, repro p.56, fig. 13 (mention in cat. 14, entry by T. Albainy), checklist p. 75

Beauvais Manufactory, Venus and Adonis, c. 1680, Wool, silk and silver thread. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of K. T. Keller, 62.136.