1952.93: Pieta Tapestry
Textile Arts
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1952.93
- People
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Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Pieta Tapestry
- Classification
- Textile Arts
- Work Type
- rug
- Date
- 1920s
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Poland
- Culture
- Polish
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/215039
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Linen warp with wool weft
- Technique
- Compound weave
- Dimensions
- 141 x 100.3 cm (55 1/2 x 39 1/2 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Howard Leman, Boston, Massachusetts gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1952.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of J. Howard Leman
- Accession Year
- 1952
- Object Number
- 1952.93
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Tapestry woven rug in bright colours, depicting a Madonna wearing a decorative cope/cloak with jewelled border with sacred heart pierced by seven lines (Sorrows?); being crowned by two winged angels. Christ, grey with death, is draped over her knees under a columned archway with two gamaganglia in corners; dark blue ground with borders top and bottom of stylized flowering vine and tears; linen warp and wool weft; linen self fringe (c. 5 inches wide); black cotton twill hanging sleeve at top for a pole (fringe is folded)
Verification Level
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