1960.2: Jupiter and Callisto
Textile Arts
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1960.2
- People
-
Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Jupiter and Callisto
- Other Titles
- Former Title: Diana and Calisto
- Classification
- Textile Arts
- Work Type
- tapestry
- Date
- c. 1700
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, France, Lille
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/214660
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Textile fibers
- Dimensions
- 299.7 x 482.6 cm (118 x 190 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- The Hearst Foundation, Inc., gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1960
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of The Hearst Foundation, Inc. in memory of William Randolph Hearst
- Accession Year
- 1960
- Object Number
- 1960.2
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Mythological tapestry depicting episodes from the story of Diana and Callisto (from Ovid's Metamorphoses and Fasti), with Diana bathing with her attendants while Zeus (Jupiter), disguised as Diana, lies with Callisto. The figures are small in relation to the landscape, and have rather blunt facial features and inelegant forms. In contrast, the landscape is superbly rendered. The borders are not quite simulated picture frames: the rectilinear moldings contain twisted acanthus leaves plaited with colorful flowers which sometimes cross illusionistically into the visual field.
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