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The Destruction of Armida's Palace
Also titled De vernietiging van het paleis van Armide
Manufacture Royale des Gobelins
c. 1741 - c. 1748
- Medium
- wool, silk
- Classification
- tapestry
- Dimensions
- height 424 cm x width 680 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
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. 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 destroying her magical palace is after a design by Charles Coypel, 1737, 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.
