Diana's Return from the Chase (from Set of Ovid's Metamorphoses)

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.

A square tapestry in muted greens and blues depicts a forest landscape. On our right, Diana sits attended by four nymphs, one washing her feet and another dressing her hair. Above them flies a winged child with a bow. On our left, a nymph leads hounds toward a person sleeping in the foreground beside a stream. A patterned red border frames the scene. All people featured have light skin tones.

Diana's Return from the Chase (from Set of Ovid's Metamorphoses)

1704–1731

Gobelins Manufactory

(France, Paris, est. 1662)

France, 18th century

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