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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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1956–
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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; Reproduced: P. 24
	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. 162, 167, 188; Reproduced: P. 166, fig. 23
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/1512852

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IMAGES

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