Title: Allegory of Fire (Venus Visiting Vulcan)
Object type: Tapestry
Date: designed 1758–67, woven 1764–71
Artist: General conception by Jacques Germain Soufflot 
Artist bio: French, Irancy 1713–1780 Paris
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Designer
Medium: Wool, silk (22-24 warps per inch, 9–10 per cm.)
Dimensions: 10 × 17 ft. (304.8 × 518.2 cm)
Classification: Textiles-Tapestries
Credit line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958
Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Birds, term: Interiors, term: Infants, term: Venus, term: Vulcan