Tapestry Featuring the Goddess of Abundance

ca. 1650 (Renaissance)

518.2 cm 335.3 cm

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Featuring Ceres, goddess of Abundance, with a cornucopia held in her left hand, this tapestry was probably woven at Fontainebleau or Paris during the reign of Henry II, king of France, for a residence of his mistress Diane de Poitiers, possible for the Chateau d'Anet. The asso...

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French & Company, New York; purchased by William Randolph Hearst [1863-1951], California and New York, 1924; William Randolf Hearst Collection Sale, Hammer Galleries and Saks Fifth, New York, ca. 1940, lot 169 no. 35. The Hearst Foundation, New York; given to Walters Art Museum, 1957.
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