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Source Description
In an abundant garden of trees and flowers, the goddess Flora sits beneath a vase of luscious flowers as her husband, the west wind Zephyrus, carried by a white cloud, reaches out to crown her with a floral chaplet. In this tapestry, Zephyrus’s wings resemble those of a butterfly or moth rather than a bird. The ravishing landscape echoes Flora and Zephyrus as springtime divinities. The parrot in the foreground is a colorful intermediary between the viewer and the gods represented in this tapestry.
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133714
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Flora and Zephyrus (from Set of Ovid's Metamorphoses)
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Source metadata
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133714
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object
title
Flora and Zephyrus (from Set of Ovid's Metamorphoses)
description
In an abundant garden of trees and flowers, the goddess Flora sits beneath a vase of luscious flowers as her husband, the west wind Zephyrus, carried by a white cloud, reaches out to crown her with a floral chaplet. In this tapestry, Zephyrus’s wings resemble those of a butterfly or moth rather than a bird. The ravishing landscape echoes Flora and Zephyrus as springtime divinities. The parrot in the foreground is a colorful intermediary between the viewer and the gods represented in this tapestry.
date
1704–1731
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60755023
creators
8592
genreSpecific
Tapestry
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 324.5 x 295 cm (127 3/4 x 116 1/8 in.)
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France, 18th century
accession
1956.325.2
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tapestry weave
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Flora and Zephyrus (from Set of Ovid's Metamorphoses), 1704–1731. Gobelins Manufactory (France, Paris, est. 1662). Tapestry weave; overall: 324.5 x 295 cm (127 3/4 x 116 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Matthias Plum, 1956.325.2
collection
Textiles
formerAccessionNumbers
1956.326
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. 171-173, 188; Reproduced: P. 172, fig. 30
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Gift of Mrs. Matthias Plum
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2026-05-29 06:51:47.943000
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133714
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Textiles
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Textiles
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tapestry weave
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gender unknown
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photo
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