Red velvet panel with two embroidered medallions
Textile Arts18th century

Red velvet panel with two embroidered medallions

18th century

Artists

Unidentified ArtistArtist

Description

Silk tent stitch embroidery depicting scenes of the sacrifice of Iphegenia?" (top) and a woman uncovering the sleeping Cupid (bottom), mounted on red cut silk velvet.

Classification
Textile Arts
Technique
Embroidery
Medium
Red velvet with silk embroidery
Century
18th century
Division
European and American Art
Department
Department of Paintings, Sculpture & Decorative Arts

Dimensions

49.2 × 104.1 cm (19 3/8 × 41 in.)

Provenance

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

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