id: 133715
accession number: 1956.325.3
share license status: CC0
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1956.325.3
updated: 2025-02-14 13:29:49.257000
Apollo and the Serpent Python (from Set of Ovid's Metamorphoses), 1700–1730. Gobelins Manufactory (France, Paris, est. 1662), after Nicolas Bertin (French, 1668–1736). Tapestry weave; overall: 328 x 393 cm (129 1/8 x 154 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Matthias Plum 1956.325.3
title: Apollo and the Serpent Python (from Set of Ovid's Metamorphoses)
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creation date: 1700–1730
creation date earliest: 1700
creation date latest: 1730
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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
* Nicolas Bertin (French, 1668–1736) - artist
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measurements: Overall: 328 x 393 cm (129 1/8 x 154 3/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1956–
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CITATIONS
Malloy, Katherine R. “Three Eighteenth-Century Gobelins Tapestries.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 44, no. 2 (1957): 24–27.
page number: Mentioned: P. 25-27; Reproduced: P. 24
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142185
Standen, Edith A. “Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’: A Gobelins Tapestry Series.” Metropolitan Museum Journal 23 (1988): 149–191.
page number: Mentioned: P. 162, 167, 188; Reproduced: P. 166, fig. 23
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1512852
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print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1956.325.3/1956.325.3_print.jpg
full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1956.325.3/1956.325.3_full.tif