id:			122564
accession number:	1942.820
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.820
updated:		2025-05-31 11:11:04.406000

Romans Admiring the Sabine Women, 1570–90. Belgium, Brussels, 16th century. Tapestry weave: silk and wool; overall: 205 x 485 cm (80 11/16 x 190 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John L. Severance, 1942.820

title:				Romans Admiring the Sabine Women
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creation date:			1570–90
creation date earliest:		1570
creation date latest:		1590
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creditline:			Bequest of John L. Severance
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culture:	Belgium, Brussels, 16th century
technique:	tapestry weave: silk and wool
department:	Textiles
collection:	Textiles
type:		Tapestry
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measurements: Overall: 205 x 485 cm (80 11/16 x 190 15/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection
	opening date:   1942-11-12T04:00:00
	<i>Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 12, 1942-March 14, 1943).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	John L. Severance [1863–1936], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?–1942
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1942–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<em>Catalogue of the John L. Severance Collection: Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 59, no. 119
	url:		https://archive.org/details/SeveranceBequest/page/n63

	William M. Milliken, Gertrude Underhill, and Jean Mailey." Department of Decorative Arts."<em> The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, Vol. 29, No. 9 (Nov., 1942), 137–151.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 149
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141017

	Standen, Edith A. “Romans and Sabines: A Sixteenth-Century Set of Flemish Tapestries,” <em>Metropolitan Museum Journal</em>, Vol. 9 (1974), 211–228.
	page number: 	pp. 214, 215
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/1512664

	Standen, Edith Appleton. <em>European Post-Medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art</em>. Volume I. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985
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