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Flora and Zephyrus (from Set of Ovid's Metamorphoses)
manufacturer Gobelins Manufactory (France, Paris, est. 1662)
1704–1731
- Medium
- tapestry weave
- Classification
- Tapestry
- Dimensions
- Overall: 324.5 x 295 cm (127 3/4 x 116 1/8 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
In an abundant garden of trees and flowers, the goddess Flora sits beneath a vase of luscious flowers as her husband, the west wind Zephyrus, carried by a white cloud, reaches out to crown her with a floral chaplet. In this tapestry, Zephyrus’s wings resemble those of a butterfly or moth rather than a bird. The ravishing landscape echoes Flora and Zephyrus as springtime divinities. The parrot in the foreground is a colorful intermediary between the viewer and the gods represented in this tapestry.
