Boreas and Orithyia from a set of scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses
Object type: Tapestry
Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Culture: French, Beauvais
Artist: Beauvais|René Antoine Houasse
Artist bio:  |French, Paris 1645–1710 Paris
Artist role: Manufactory|Designer
Artist nationality:  |French
Date: designed ca. 1690, woven before 1730
Medium: Wool, silk, metal thread (19-22 warps per inch, 7-9 per cm.)
Dimensions: 11 ft. 8 in. × 14 ft. 11 in. (355.6 × 454.7 cm) (as measured by Textile Conservation in 1984)
Classification: Textiles-Tapestries
Credit line: Gift of Frances L. Kellogg, 1977
Accession year: 1977
Tags: Men|Women|Trees