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Roland slaapt
Manufacture Royale des Gobelins
1746 - 1750
- Medium
- wool, silk
- Classification
- tapestry
- Dimensions
- height 425 cm x width 685 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Stichting tot Bevordering van de Belangen van het Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
Tapestry, one of a set of four with scenes from the opera Rinaldo et Armida (1686) by P. Quinault and J.B. Lully, inspired by the epic poem Gerusalemme Liberata by Torquato Tasso. Wool and silk, tapestry woven. Paris, 1741 - 1749, Manufacture Royale des Gobelins, workshop of Mathieu Monmerqué and Pierre François Cozette. The scene of Armida falling in love with the sleeping Rinaldo is after a design by Charles Coypel, 1741, the borders after one by Pierre Josse Perrot, 1738. Presented by Louis XV to the Spanish ambassador Paul-Gérôme Grimaldi in 1763 Given by the Commissie voor Fotoverkoop, 1955.
