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Diana's Return from the Chase (from Set of Ovid's Metamorphoses)
manufacturer Gobelins Manufactory (France, Paris, est. 1662)
1704–1731
- Medium
- tapestry weave
- Classification
- Tapestry
- Dimensions
- Overall: 322.5 x 326 cm (126 15/16 x 128 3/8 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Textiles
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Matthias Plum
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This tapestry’s elaborate border emulates a gilt picture frame, a key characteristic of eighteenth-century Gobelins tapestries. It portrays the goddess Diana at two distinct moments, during and following the hunt, the first accompanied by three dogs, and the second reclining among five attendants. The figures are positioned in a lush landscape near a small stream. A putto, poised to place an arrow in his bow, hovers above Diana. Goddess of the hunt and associated with wild animals and the moon, Diana can be identified by the crescent worn above her forehead. The dead hares indicate a successful hunt.
