Apollo and Daphne

1713/1721

Charles de La Fosse

Designer, French, 1636 - 1716

Zeger Jacob van Helmont

Designer, Flemish, 1683 - 1726

Augustin Coppens

Designer, Flemish, 1668 - 1740

Urbanus Leyniers

Weaver, Flemish, 1674 - 1747

Daniël Leyniers II

Weaver, Flemish, 1669 - 1728

Hendrik Reydams II

Weaver, Flemish, 1650 - 1719

design by Charles de La Fosse; cartoon by Zeger Jacob van Helmont (figures) and Augustin Coppens (landscape); woven in Brussels in the workshop of Urbanus Leyniers, Daniël Leyniers II, and Hendrik Reydams II

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    tapestry: undyed wool warp, dyed wool and silk weft

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Lewis Einstein

  • Accession Number

    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

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