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Source 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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Document identity
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133713
label
Diana's Return from the Chase (from Set of Ovid's Metamorphoses)
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133713
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object
title
Diana's Return from the Chase (from Set of Ovid's Metamorphoses)
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.
date
1704–1731
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60755348
creators
8592
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Tapestry
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 322.5 x 326 cm (126 15/16 x 128 3/8 in.)
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France, 18th century
accession
1956.325.1
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tapestry weave
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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
collection
Textiles
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1956.325
didYouKnow
During the French Revolution, Gobelins tapestries were sometimes disassembled to harvest the gold threads.
citations
citation
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
citation
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
creditline
Gift of Mrs. Matthias Plum
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2026-05-29 06:51:52.270000
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133713
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Textiles
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Textiles
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tapestry weave
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photo
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