Carpet with Fame and Fortitude
Carpet with Fame and Fortitude
- Artist
- Savonnerie Manufactory
- Artist Dates
- active 1627-present
- Artist Nationality
- French
- Title
- Carpet with Fame and Fortitude
- Date
- 1668–85
- Medium
- knotted and cut wool pile, woven with about 90 knots per square inch
- Dimensions
- 358 x 181 in (909.3 x 459.7 cm)
- Repository
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Accession Number
- 58.75.129
- Notes
Provenance
[Bourdillon, Raimond, and Co. ; one of 44 purchased in 1797] ; Possibly Dukes of Marlborough ; The Samuel H. Kress Foundation (until 1958; to MMA)