Apollo and Daphne
1713/1721
Designer, French, 1636 - 1716
Designer, Flemish, 1683 - 1726
Designer, Flemish, 1668 - 1740
Weaver, Flemish, 1674 - 1747
Weaver, Flemish, 1669 - 1728
Weaver, Flemish, 1650 - 1719

Artwork overview
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Medium
tapestry: undyed wool warp, dyed wool and silk weft
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Credit Line
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Accession
1951.1.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Lewis Einstein [1877-1967], London and Paris, by 1946;[1] gift 1951 to NGA.
[1] The tapestry was seen before 1946, apparently in Einstein's London residence, by Henry Currie Marillier (see his Subject Catalogue of Tapestries, manuscript, 50 vols., in the Department of Textiles, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, inv. T37-1946, T37R: s.v. "Apollo," 19; copy in NGA curatorial files).
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1957
Extended loan for use by the Ambassador, U.S. Embassy residence, Brussels, Belgium, 1957-1959.
Bibliography
1993
Adelson, Candace. "Apollo and Daphne from Charles de La Fosse's Ovid's Fables: A Series Designed for the Leyniers-Reydams Workshop in Brussels." Studies in the History of Art 42 (1993): 35-55, repro. no. 1.
Wikidata ID
Q62286414