id:			133713
accession number:	1956.325.1
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1956.325.1
updated:		2023-03-09 12:48:03.864000

Diana's Return from the Chase (from Set of Ovid's Metamorphoses), 1704–1731. Gobelins Manufactory (France, Paris, est. 1662). Tapestry weave; overall: 322.5 x 326 cm (126 15/16 x 128 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Matthias Plum 1956.325.1

title:				Diana's Return from the Chase (from Set of Ovid's Metamorphoses)
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creation date:			1704–1731
creation date earliest:		1704
creation date latest:		1731
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creditline:			Gift of Mrs. Matthias Plum
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culture:	France, 18th century
technique:	tapestry weave
department:	Textiles
collection:	Textiles
type:		Tapestry
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CREATORS

* Gobelins Manufactory (France, Paris, est. 1662)  - manufacturer
For more information: http://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/view/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.001.0001/oao-9781884446054-e-7000032919
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measurements: Overall: 322.5 x 326 cm (126 15/16 x 128 3/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Mrs. Matthias Plum (Bertha Andrews Rainey Plum) [1909-1976], New York, NY, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?–1956
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1956–
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fun fact:
During the French Revolution, Gobelins tapestries were sometimes disassembled to harvest the gold threads.

digital description:
This tapestry’s elaborate border emulates a gilt picture frame, a key characteristic of eighteenth-century Gobelins tapestries. It portrays the goddess Diana at two distinct moments, during and following the hunt, the first accompanied by three dogs, and the second reclining among five attendants. The figures are positioned in a lush landscape near a small stream. A putto, poised to place an arrow in his bow, hovers above Diana. Goddess of the hunt and associated with wild animals and the moon, Diana can be identified by the crescent worn above her forehead. The dead hares indicate a successful hunt.

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Malloy, Katherine R. “Three Eighteenth-Century Gobelins Tapestries.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>44, no. 2 (1957): 24–27.
	page number: 	Mentioned: P. 25-27
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142185

	Standen, Edith A. “Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’: A Gobelins Tapestry Series.” <em>Metropolitan Museum Journal</em> 23 (1988): 149-191.
	page number: 	Mentioned: P. 159, 162-163, 188; Reproduced: P. 164, fig. 19
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/1512852

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IMAGES

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